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  • Under the Influence of Empire: Whistler’s Naval Review Etchings

    • Art

    James McNeill Whistler's Naval Review Etchings of 1887, their influences, and imperial implications.

  • Have you heard the one about a train, a schooner, and a drawbridge?

    • Photography

    Train accident, Laurel Delaware 1904. Locomotive plunges into river crushing schooner "Golden Gate."

  • William Henry Bartlett and his Steamship Adventures

    • Art
    • Collections

    William Henry Bartlett was a prolific artist who traveled the world to produce images for illustrated travel books from the late 1830s through the early 1850s. Learn more about the printed engravings of his artwork in the collection.

  • “In the Land of Submarines”: Assessing Nishimura-style no. 3746

    • Collections
    • Conservation

    Welcome to the second installment of our miniseries on Nishimura 3746, a Japanese midget submarine. We’re deep diving into an on-going project to resupport this one-of-a-kind vessel.

  • USS ROANOKE: THE THREE-TURRETED MONSTER

    • Civil War
    • Hampton Roads History
    • Military Conflict

    The USS Roanoke was a Merrimack-class steam screw frigate built at the Gosport Navy Yard. When the Civil War erupted, Roanoke captured several blockade runners and fought during the March 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads.

  • History is in the Details

    • Art
    • Collections

    The Mariners’ Museum and Park has thousands of prints in our collection, and one of my recent projects has been to catalog the prints and engravings from a German book titled Meyer’s Universe, or Illustration and Description of the Most Remarkable and Strangest Things in Nature and Art all over the World.

  • La Isabel Project: Part One

    • Collections
    • Conservation

    The first step in a project to assess the condition of La Isabel, a Jábega boat, a traditional fishing trawler from Málaga, Spain. It was built in 1925 and came to The Mariners’ Museum and Park in 1933 not long after the Museum opened.

  • Elk…in the Park?

    • Mariners' Park
    • Wildlife

    For several years, we had a permitted wildlife sanctuary in the Park! Of the projects from the early years of the Park, our wildlife endeavor was the longest, lasting until almost 1950.

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