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The Tales Candy Can Tell

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Riley’s Rum and Butter Toffee, QB68.

In the spirit of Halloween I searched the collection looking for something unique to share. I came across a small candy tin with two ships on the lid. The name across the front said Riley’s Rum and Butter (Flavoured) Toffee, which sounded fun so I started to research.

这家英国公司在母亲的餐桌上开创了相当谦虚的开端。艾伦·赖利（Ellen Riley）于1848年出生于威廉和玛丽·安·贝茨（Mary Ann Bates）。她担任裁缝，直到1872年8月7日与约翰·亨利·赖利（John Henry Riley）结婚。听起来他是一名中间商，可以弄清细节并将羊毛评级为出售。他们有两个儿子，弗雷德里克·威廉和约翰·赫伯特·莱利。约翰·赫伯特（John Herbert）成为一名银行书记员，弗雷德（Fred）最初是在1901年之前担任伍尔斯塔普勒（Woolstapler）的父亲的脚步。几年后，这些职业计划发生了变化。阅读更多

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William Henry Bartlett and his Steamship Adventures

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William Henry Bartlett, from volume 1 of “American Scenery” by Nathaniel Parker Willis, 1840. Many of Bartlett’s images appear in Willis’ books. TMMP Library, E165 .W73 Rare.

I have recently spent a lot of time with an artist named William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854*). Not really him, more like the printed engravings made from his artwork, but we have over 100 in the collection so I kind of feel like he is family now. After cataloging so many of his prints I started to notice that I was typing the same thing over and over: steamship in the background, steam coming from the funnels. The more I looked the more I saw them, sometimes featured in the image but often in the far distant background. That made me wonder, what was it about these steamships that fascinated Bartlett so much that he included them in his artwork on a regular basis?

*As an aside, there is a second British artist named William Henry Bartlett who lived from 1858-1932.阅读更多

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History is in the Details

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A scene from the shore looking out on Hobart, Tasmania. FromMeyer’s Universum第8卷，于1841年出版。LE989/1936.0603.000001

亚博平台网址水手博物馆和公园在我们的收藏中有成千上万的印刷品，我最近的一个项目是对一本名为“德国书”的版画和版画进行编目。Meyer的Universum，Oder Abbildung und Beschreibung des Sehenswerthesten undMerkwürdigstender Natural und Kunst auf auf ganzen erde, or in EnglishMeyer’s Universe, or Illustration and Description of the Most Remarkable and Strangest Things in Nature and Art all over the World.这些1800年代的插图旅行书有很棒的名字，但简而言之，我们称之为Meyer’s Universum.

该系列中只有29个印刷品，因此应该很快。首先，我找到了出版印刷品的书籍，验证版本（因此是一年），然后描述和研究图像中的所有内容：建筑物，桥梁，雕像，河流，如果我能识别出它，我将提供历史记录。我们已经有了这本书的名字，这有多难？阅读更多

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Privateering and the Battle of Groton Heights

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Whaleship in New London, oil painting by D. Walter Blake. QO 25/1933.0213.000001

有时，集合中只需要一个对象就可以打开一个令人兴奋的故事。在这种情况下，一幅油画在前几天引起了我的注意，让我想起了一段历史，当我第一次了解它时，我的历史使我感到兴奋。

During the American Revolution the Americans had a fledgling Navy, made up of the small fleets that each state could muster together. These ships were not able to match the well-trained, battle-hardened British Navy, so the Americans turned to privateers to help in the fight. A privateer was a private citizen who owned a ship and offered to arm that ship to fight against the British merchants. They had a better chance of success fighting merchants than a ship of the line, plus we needed the merchants’ cargo and supplies. In return the privateers received a portion of the money from the sale of the captured prize ship and the goods it carried. The profits could be high, but so was the danger. Whether these sailors were pirates or not completely depended on the paperwork and whose side of the war you were on.阅读更多

90th Birthday Collections

Building International Connections through the Collections

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许多博物馆始于一个人一生收集自己喜欢的东西的人，家庭成员可能会开玩笑地称其为“ ho积”，直到他们意识到宝藏的重要性。然后，该收藏成为新博物馆的基础。亚博平台网址水手博物馆和公园的不同之处在于，我们从一个有公园的博物馆开始，然后不得不搜索并建造收藏品。购买对象的这种过程使我们能够建立正直和真实性的声誉，然后建立了导致捐赠的关系。

在1930年收到我们的宪章后，博物馆开始在公园工作，开发土地并创造了现在的水手湖。然后，重点转移到了博物馆的建筑本身和收藏品，我们派出买家来寻找重要的代表性物品，以讲述所有海上历史的故事，而不仅仅是美国人。阅读更多

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