. International studio. , ol Salem, Massa-chusetts; the unique Bournewhaling museum in NewBedford; those of the New York Yacht Club andIndia House in New York City; and the UnitedStates Government collection at the NasalAcademy at Annapolis. Oldest of these collections of models is that olthe Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts,the origin of which goes back to the founding ofthe Salem East India Marine Society with itsmuseum in i~oo. In those days objects connectedwith the life of the sailor were on every handand were considered too common to put in amuseum, but during the first fifty years
. International studio. , ol Salem, Massa-chusetts; the unique Bournewhaling museum in NewBedford; those of the New York Yacht Club andIndia House in New York City; and the UnitedStates Government collection at the NasalAcademy at Annapolis. Oldest of these collections of models is that olthe Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts,the origin of which goes back to the founding ofthe Salem East India Marine Society with itsmuseum in i~oo. In those days objects connectedwith the life of the sailor were on every handand were considered too common to put in amuseum, but during the first fifty years oi itsexistence many ship models were presented tothe institution together with pictures of shipsand related objects and portraits of Salem mer-chants connected with the shipping trade. In1889 all these objects were brought together inthe Marine Room of the Peabody Museum towhich the possessions of the older societj hadbeen transferred in i86~. This collection includes SEPTEMBER 19 2 2 four eighty -sexen inceRnAcioriAL. one case containing minia- model of an English . - EAST INDIAMAN, 18oO ture models made ot wood, by e. w. ottie bone and glass between the years 1779 and IO-04; a five feet long model of theU. S. Frigate Constitution, made before 1813when it was given to the society by Captain IsaacHull—one ol the most highly prized models inAmerica since it is the only accurate contemporarymodel ol the frigate known; a lull-rigged model ofthe U. S. Ohio, a ship-of-the-Iine built in 1820;a model ol the pinkie—a type of coasting vesselnow obsolete; a Salem brig of 1814; another ofthe ship Friendship of Salem, dating from 1803;one of the bark LaGrange that sailed forCalifornia in 1849; aBlock Island boatmodel; a model datingfrom before 1800 of thebrig Rising States; acontemporary model ofthe New Bedford whal-ing bark Sea Fox of builder s model of a lateeighteenth century gun brig (Collection of Clarkson H. Collins, Jr.) > -sim
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