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  2. Mariners' Museum and Park - Wikipedia

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    The museum’s collection totals approximately 32,000 artifacts, equally divided between works of art and three-dimensional objects. The scope of the collection is international and includes miniature ship models, scrimshaw, maritime paintings, decorative arts, carved figureheads, working steam engines, and the world's only known Kratz-built steam calliope. [4]

  3. List of maritime museums in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Los Angeles Maritime Museum: California: Monterey: Monterey Maritime and History Museum: Y California: Morro Bay, California: Morro Bay Maritime Museum: California: Newport Beach: Newport Harbor Maritime Museum: Y California: Oxnard: Channel Islands (Ventura County) Maritime Museum: California: Port Hueneme: US Navy SeaBee Museum: California ...

  4. Ann McKim (clipper) - Wikipedia

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    The Kennard & Williamson partnership was a shipbuilding firm in Fell's point, Baltimore in 1830s.The partnership began 15 June 1831. [5] It was formed between James Joseph Williamson and Samuel Kennard (also known as Kinard and Kinnard).

  5. Thomas H. Willis - Wikipedia

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    Thomas H. Willis (1845-June 1, 1925) was a Danish-born American artist who combined marine art, folk art, and needlework in his portraits of American and European sailing ships, steamers, pilot boats and yachts.

  6. USS Lancaster Eagle - Wikipedia

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    The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia The USS Lancaster Eagle is a figurehead that was carved in 1880-1881 by John Haley Bellamy for the USS Lancaster . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The eagle is currently owned by and displayed at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia .

  7. Why your favorite catalogs are smaller this holiday season

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    A collection of 2024 holiday catalogs are displayed Monday, Nov. 25, 2024, in Freeport, Maine. Catalog retailers, reeling from U.S. postal rate increases, have responded with pint-sized catalogs ...

  8. James E. Buttersworth - Wikipedia

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    San Salvadore (c. 1869–1886) in the collection at The Mariners' Museum.. James Edward Buttersworth (1817–1894) was an English painter who specialized in maritime art and is considered among the foremost ship portraitists in the United States of the nineteenth century. [1]

  9. The Mariners' Lake - Wikipedia

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    The Mariners' Lake is a reservoir which was created as part of the natural park on the grounds of the Mariners' Museum and Park located in the independent city of Newport News in the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia. The area was previously known as Lake Maury and Water's Creek before it was dammed.