Museum Donations – Winter 1990
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The Great Lakes… 84% of the continent’s fresh water… a different story in every drop.
By Alex Cook
Gifts
Two peloruses, an aneroid barometer, a 3-inch box compass, 38 flags, 12 Ship Masters’ Association Directories, a number of Great lakes Red Books, back copies of INLAND SEAs®, 77 photographs of lakes boats, news clippings and navigational charts from Capt. James A. Cowan of Lakewood, Ohio.
A coffee table with a top made from a slab of polished taconite, 19 by 37 inches, from Thomas F. Patton of Cleveland. Taconite is a flintlike rock with enough iron content for mining and processing into pellets for the steel industry.
A 16-mm movie showing the first passage up the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland of the tug-barge Horace S. Wilkinson in 1963, Instructions for Coast Guard Stations, A History of the U.S. Salvage Association, 1921-1971, a Canadian Ports & Seaway Directory, 1966, supplemental volumes to Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, a
U.S. Coast Guard lifeboat manual, 1965, an Inter-Lake Yachting Association Manual, 1922, 12 copies of Great lakes Pilot,18 copies of Great lakes light List, specimen examinations for U.S. Merchant Marine1icenses, an engineer’s bell book for the steamer James E. Ferris, 1967, a logbook for the steamer Eugene J. Buffington, I942,a scrapbook with various passenger tickets and vouchers for C.D. & G.B.T. Co., 1960-1961, three marine engineering books and a master book of vessel arrivals and departures for Cleveland Harbor, 1963-1965, from Alexander Meakin, a trustee and former chairman of the Society.
Image from the Inland Seas Winter 1990 issue.
A newsletter Bearings with an article “An Introduction to the Scow” by and from Cliff Hawkins of Auckland, New Zealand.
An article about the steamer Middletown from the Navy Times from John Palik of Elyria, Ohio.
Seventy-nine 4 by 6 color photographs of ships and ship interiors, winter navigation reports, 1979,and news clippings about the steamers William G. Mather and Henry Steinbrenner from Brian Bernard of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
A “List of United States Vessels on the Great Lakes Equipped with Radiotelephones. Including Assigned Calls,” April 1948, from Neil E. Jones of Littleton, Colorado.
A book Wharf Rats ...and Other People by Walker H. Nye published in Cleveland in 1948 from Harry R. Valley of Cleveland.
A set of parallel rules used by Capt. Matthew Anderson from Louis Rau of Vermilion, Ohio.
Nine photographs of the Standard Oil Intake Channel, Toledo, Ohio, one photograph of the steamer Edmund Fitzgerald on her maiden voyage, brochures for Lakefront Dock & Railroad Terminal Company and Torco Dock, Port of Toledo, from Jeffrey Clark of Cleveland.
Two house flags, six color photographs of the MV Stewart J. Cort, newsletters and periodicals from Great Lakes steamship companies, printed materials from the International Shipmasters’ Association and 44 back copies of INLANDSEAS from Capt. Norbert Fahey of Fairview Park, Ohio.
Sixteen copies of Know Your Ships, a number of books relating to the Great Lakes and back copies of INLANDSEAS presented in memory of Nelson James McGory from his family in Cadillac, Michigan.
Anastro-compass in a wooden box, No. W535-AC36492, from Jeanne Forsgren of Rocky River, Ohio.
Thirty-four back copies of INLAND SEAS, 1974 through 1989, from Theodore D. Wakefield of Vermilion, Ohio.
A VHS video “The Benefits of Great Lakes Shipping” produced by Lake Carriers’ Association from George J. Ryan, president, and a trustee of the Society.
Two ship models, one of the Sovereign of the Seas, the second unidentified and both in need of repair, presented in memory of Dwight Moody Brocklehurst from Dwight Brocklehurst of Elyria, Ohio.
Copies of drawings and elevation plans for Port Washington Pierhead Tower and fog signal machinery and piping from Mrs. Jeff Laser of Mount Vernon, Ohio.
A list of ship plans and prints showing vessel types, scales, and shipyard numbers from Hans E. Swendsboe of Dedham, Massachusetts.
A color photograph of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s reconstructed brig Niagara and a drawing or plan of the Helen W. with figures on the reverse side showing parts and operating instructions for a Kahlenberg engine from Jeff Brown of Canton, Ohio.
Films, photographs and materials about the Great Lakes commercial fishing industry and the Kishman Fish Company from Mrs. Ray Full of Vermilion, Ohio.
Twenty-three photo-copies of documents on schooners owned by Daniel, James and George Slauson beginning in 1840 from Patricia Rolfe of St. Paul, Minnesota.
A number of National Geographic Society magazines for forwarding to the Naval Home Library from Robert McDermott of Lorain, Ohio.
On loan is a book Marine Steam published by Babcock & Wilcox Co. in 1908 from Robert Gerki of Wakeman, Ohio.
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