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Two New Portraits for Mystic Seaport Museum
The two paintings below are a recent acquisition via bequest from the estate of Barbara Snow Delaney, former managing editor of Antiques Magazine. Barbara and husband Edmund T. Delaney were very...
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Blockade-running Document Added to Mystic Seaport Collection
The stock certificate seen here was from the Palmetto Exporting and Importing Company of Charleston, South Carolina. Why on earth would Mystic Seaport Museum be interested in such a certificate? The...
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ROANN in Graphite and Watercolor
Seen below is a detail from a recent gift from the family of marine artist Arthur Moniz. The artist passed away this year and his widow kindly offered the painting of the Mystic Seaport Museum fishing...
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Springtime with the U.S.S VANDALIA, 1886
In the spring of 1886 a young ensign aboard the U.S.S. VANDALIA on a voyage down the east coast headed towards South America made a short landfall on Staten Island where he spent time with some...
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A New Shellback Crosses the Line
A crossing-the-line ceremony is something that many naval and merchant seamen have experienced. Traditionally, when a vessel passes over the equator, anyone aboard that is also crossing for the first...
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Early 19th-Century Neutral Trade Documents at Mystic Seaport Museum
Two small collections of papers in the G.W. Blunt White Library illuminate how United States merchantmen trading with Europe faced many obstacles during the early 19th century as continual warfare...
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Women’s History on the QUEEN ELIZABETH
In my work researching materials from the Witherill Collection, a collection of documents and objects relating to the grand ocean liners of the 20th century, it has often been frustrating trying to...
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And the Band Plays on… in Mystic Seaport’s Collections
2020.39.7177 A photograph of the Titanic leaving Southampton, part of the Witherill Collection. by Michelle Turner The Titanic is so much a part of our collective memory and pop culture that the...
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A Nautical Novelty: Dr. Seuss’ Navy
Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to all as Dr. Seuss, the beloved children’s book author and illustrator, began his career as cartoonist for Vanity Fair, Life and other publications before moving...
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An Ocean Liner Sampler
We have posted a number of items over the last two years pertaining to an extraordinary collection that was given to the Museum a few years ago. This collection of ocean liner ephemera entails nearly...
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