Telescope
Classification:
Date:
1820-1850
Medium:
Brass, glass
Dimensions:
closed: 20 3/4 x 2 5/8 in. ( 52.7 x 6.7 cm )
Description:
Hand-held telescope with brass casing.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Anna Gertrude Ferris, Miss Katherine Livingstone Ferris, and Mr. Gilbert Bishop Ferris
Object Number:
1947.125
Marks:
engraved: on side of inner cylinder: "B. Wood / Liverpool"
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this telescope once belonged to Captain Watson Ferris (1804-1853), great-uncle of the donors. Ferris served as captain of the "Liverpool," the "Westchester," and the "St. George."
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1850
eMuseum Object ID:
28586
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Telescope
Classification:
Date:
1775-1825
Medium:
Brass, wood, glass
Dimensions:
closed: 19 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. ( 49.5 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Hand-held telescope with brass and wood casing.
Credit Line:
Purchase
Object Number:
1950.358
Marks:
engraved: on side of inner cylinder: "C. PARKE + London"
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this telescope was used by Captain Henry B. Brevoort.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1825
eMuseum Object ID:
28584
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Telescope
Classification:
Date:
1800-1835
Medium:
Brass, wood, glass
Dimensions:
closed: 20 1/4 x 2 3/8 in. ( 51.4 x 6 cm )
open: 35 x 2 3/8 in. ( 88.9 x 6 cm )
Description:
Hand-held telescope with brass and wood casing.
Credit Line:
Gift of Miss Marian Holyoke
Object Number:
1947.434
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this telescope once belonged to Dixey Wildes, son of Jane and John Wildes (d. 1773) of Arundel, Maine. Dixey Wildes settled in Boston in the early 1800s. The donor, Marian Holyoke, was his great-granddaughter.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
28583
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Telescope
Classification:
Date:
1800-1835
Medium:
Brass, wood, glass, paint
Dimensions:
closed: 20 x 2 1/2 in. ( 50.8 x 6.4 cm )
open: 35 3/4 x 2 1/2 in. ( 90.8 x 6.4 cm )
Description:
Hand-held telescope with brass and red-painted wood casing.
Credit Line:
Gift of James Lenox Banks
Object Number:
1940.474
Marks:
engraved: on side of inner cylinder: "Spencer Browning & Rust / London / Day or Night"
Gallery Label:
According to the accession records, this instrument was used by William Banks (1782-1848), grandfather of the donor, on his voyages.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1835
eMuseum Object ID:
28545
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Telescope
Classification:
Date:
1885-1898
Medium:
Metal, glass, cotton, rubber
Dimensions:
closed: 14 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 12 in. ( 36.8 x 44.4 x 30.5 cm )
Description:
Metal and glass telescope on table-top tripod stand attached with cotton straps.
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. James G. Harbord
Object Number:
1948.588
Marks:
typewritten: on paper label affixed near one end of telescope: "This telescope was on the 'REINA MERCEDES', of the / Spanish Fleet, sunk at Santiago, July 5th, 1898."
Gallery Label:
A typewritten label attached to the object indicates that it was used during the Spanish-American War on the Spanish ship "Reina Mercedes," which was sunk at Santiago on July 5, 1898.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1898
eMuseum Object ID:
28538
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Commemorative plaque
Classification:
Date:
1904-1910
Medium:
Wood
Dimensions:
Overall: 24 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 1 in. ( 62.2 x 26 x 2.5 cm )
Description:
Handcarved and decorated plaque made of wood from the steamer "General Slocum"; vertical form with elaborately shaped top and bottom; woodburned decoration with "IN / MEMORY OF VICTIMS / ST. LUKES / CHURCH" at top, image of the steamer surrounded by angels at center, and a cross and anchor at bottom.
Credit Line:
Gift of Rev. Paul H. Wasmund
Object Number:
1955.47
Marks:
woodburning: on obverse: "IN / MEMORY OF VICTIMS / ST. LUKES / CHURCH / ON / 1904 / JUNE 15th."
woodburning: on reverse: "MENORY [sic] / main / LAR"
Gallery Label:
In a letter written in 1955, Howard Zuckgraf, son of the maker, explained that a short time after the General Slocum disaster in 1904 his father discovered a piece of driftwood along the shore of Bayonne, in the vicinity of the Statue of Liberty, that he believed was part of one of the boat's side wheel boxes. He began to decorate the wood with an "old fashion gas type" burning iron, which burned out before the design was completed.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
28486
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Sternboard from the "Portsmouth"
Classification:
Date:
ca. 1843
Medium:
Wood, paint, gilding
Dimensions:
Overall: 48 1/2 x 69 1/2 x 5 in. ( 123.2 x 176.5 x 12.7 cm )
Description:
Carved, painted, and gilded wooden sternboard of eagle with outspread wings sitting atop shield, cannon and draped flags; rectangular board at bottom with gilded letters spelling "PORTSMOUTH." Eagle completely gilded; shield and accoutrements painted red, white and blue with gilt tassels.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Naval History Society
Object Number:
1925.100
Marks:
inscribed: beneath eagle in gilded wood individual letters: "PORTSMOUTH"
Gallery Label:
This sternboard is from the fast sailing vessel "Portsmouth," built in 1843. It was probably carved by the Baltimore shipcarver William Seward.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1843
eMuseum Object ID:
28447
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Bell from the "Clermont"
Classification:
Date:
1800-1807
Medium:
Iron, wood, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 x 24 x 16 in. ( 50.8 x 61 x 40.6 cm )
Description:
Cast iron bell with painted inscription; supported from above and on either side by iron mounts bolted to rectangular wooden base.
Credit Line:
Gift of Alfred Van Santvoord Olcott
Object Number:
1949.177
Marks:
painted: on side of bell: "FROM / ROBERT FULTON'S / STEAMBOAT / CLERMONT / [1807]"
Gallery Label:
This bell is said to come from Robert Fulton's steamboat, the "Clermont," which began operating between New York City and Albany, New York, in 1807. According to Eben E. Olcott, father of the donor and Chairman of the Clermont Committee of the Hudson-Fulton Exhibition of 1909, this bell was used on the "Clermont" in the first year of its operation.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1807
eMuseum Object ID:
28284
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Astrolabe
Classification:
Date:
1850-1910
Medium:
Brass
Dimensions:
Overall: 1 1/2 x 8 1/8 x 6 1/8 in. ( 3.8 x 20.6 x 15.6 cm )
Description:
Brass astrolabe; disk with three circular holes in upper half, numbered scale divided into quandrants incised around edge, and rotating bar across center with pierced right-angled tabs at either end; ring swivel-mounted at top.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Half Moon Committee of the Hudson-Fulton Exhibition, 1909
Object Number:
1910.31
Gallery Label:
This brass astrolabe was among the objects on the 1909 replica of Henry Hudson's ship, "Half Moon." The English explorer set sail from Amsterdam in 1609 with backing from the Dutch East India Company, dropped anchor in the lower bay of what is now New York harbor, and then sailed up what was later named the Hudson River.
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1910
eMuseum Object ID:
28283
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
Ship flag paintings on wood (8)
Classification:
Date:
1915-1925
Medium:
Wood, paint
Dimensions:
largest: 11 3/4 x 5 3/4 x 1/2 in.
Description:
Group of 12 pieces of wood painted with flags symbolizing letters; each board painted with specific ships' flags; 2 holes drilled through top of each board to hold string tying boards together (for vertical hanging).
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. Frederic Griffith
Object Number:
Z.1438a-l
Marks:
painted: (a): "SS-/INDIAN/F. GRIFFITH/3RD OFFICER"
painted: (b): "USS-/EASTERN SOLDIER/...F. GRIFFITH/CHIEF OFFICER/NOV. 1921."
painted: (c): USS-/CITY OF NEW YORK/SAMSON/F. GRIFFITH/COMMANDER"
painted: (d): USS/GATEWAY CITY/E. KNUPPEL/MASTER/F. GRIFFI
Date Begin:
0
Date End:
1925
eMuseum Object ID:
28250
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
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