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Earlier this month I posted a picture of the cover of Life Magazine from 1955 showing our beautiful兰开斯特Eagle. Last weekend I just happened to be browsing in the Clifton Forge Antique Mall and saw stack upon stack of Life Magazine’s. Sifting through them, I managed to find a copy of the one with our eagle. Even though we already have one in our library, I went ahead and picked it up to put in our object file so anyone looking through the file for research will have quick access to it.

从那个时间段看到彩色的镜头时，真的很有趣，因为我们主要有黑白图像。我也喜欢试图看看我是否可以识别背景中的其他作品。鹰背后的傀儡是蒸汽游艇的半拉米斯（CA 1894-1930）Narada(ex.Semiramis). The figurehead on the wall to the left is Merrie Monarch, attributed to the shipMerrie Monarchbuilt in 1859 by J.H. Martin in St. Martins, New Brunswick. Also to the left is a model of the Dollar Line representing two of their ships,President Hoover和PresidentCoolidge这两者都在1931年开始服务。它是第一个由我们的ShipModel建设者建造在30年代早期的第一个模型。在画廊的后壁上可以部分地看到一个半模型，蓝色背景。这块CA 1939，是船Great Britain和was built for showcase in the New York World’s Fair. She is one of five half-models in our collection built for the New York World’s Fair.

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For those who follow the Way Back Wednesday posts, they get an interesting peek into The Mariners’ Museum’s history. Many people, including our staff, don’t realize that there is a whole treasure trove of these photos kept in the back of the museum in storage. Part of the reason for this is that there has never been a complete inventory done for them, so no one is completely sure what all we have. We have been working on fixing that problem with the tremendous help of our volunteer Melissa, a CNU student.

Melissa一直花时间将照片排序到不同的类别中，按日期安排照片文件夹，用更新的档案材料取代旧的酸性材料，并将照片放入Excel数据库中，让我们执行Word搜索以查找特定的图像主题。这些照片对博物馆的历史和我们的收藏的重要性是不可估量的，而且经历了很多乐趣。阅读更多

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9-Old Small Craft Bldg

Construction of our old Small Craft Building. About 11 years ago it was replaced with a newer, more efficient building where a good amount of our small craft is now displayed.

这张图片显示了我们船模型店的男性在1940年1月23日修理了一群傀儡。我们的许多傀儡来到博物馆的粗糙形状，因此需要一点工作来确保它们足够稳定，以便显示它们足够稳定。作为我们的旧照片显示，我们曾经在我们的大厅墙上有大量的。阅读更多

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Warwick County Girl Scouts Field Day in what is now known as Harvey Field May 1947

来自Warwick County的一群女孩童子军在1947年5月在现在被称为Harvey Field的野外日子。

来自ft的部队。尤斯蒂斯，电池，第11营，与我们的Leifr eriksson雕像带来。在前景是来自18世纪的我们美丽的西班牙大炮之一。它目前正在展示博物馆的前面。阅读更多

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Fun Fact Friday

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One of the most recognizable pieces of our collection is the USS兰开斯特Eagle, carved by John Haley Bellamy. What many people do not know is how we came to acquire such a treasure.

In the 1930’s, we had a number of buyers roaming around, looking for artifacts for the museum. A group of them happened upon the eagle while poking around a ship chandler’s shop in Boston (of course, it would be pretty hard to miss). The owner of the shop was very eager to get rid of the piece; understandable since it was the era of the Great Depression and it took up a lot of space in his shop. But, as usually happens once someone expresses some interest, the price suddenly escalates. Because of this, the purchase of the eagle was put on hold. Thankfully, they did end up coming back to purchase the piece! It is one of the most important and magnificent pieces in the collection. And when people walk through the doors of our museum, they tend to head straight to the eagle. Not surprising since it is very regal and difficult to miss!阅读更多