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Getting the Collection “Ship-Shape”: The Small Craft Survey

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对象保护者佩奇·施密特（Paige Schmidt）和我本人在国际小型手工艺中心（International Small Craft Center）中检查了乐观班的丁格（Dinghing）“ Minnow”。图片来源：水手博物馆和公园。亚博平台网址

如果您在星期四访问国际小型工艺中心，您可能会发现物体保护者Paige Schmidt和我（夏季保护实习生）在船之间的地板上爬行。我们没有像盲目的Velma Dinkley那样失去眼镜。实际上，我们正在对博物馆收藏的142架小型手工艺品进行的保护调查。

The small craft collection contains a diverse variety of vessels ranging in size, shape, function, and source culture. Because the Museum’s small craft originate from such a variety of contexts, each boat comes to the Museum with its own quirks and challenges resulting from its history of use. To get a better understanding of the collection, its condition issues, and its needs, it is necessary to evaluate each small craft, one-by-one.Read more

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马修·亨森（Matthew Henson）：北极探险家

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马修·亚历山大·亨森（Matthew Alexander Henson）1910.从国会图书馆检索，https://www.loc.gov/item/00650163/。您可以搜索他们的网站以查看其他照片。

A great deal of our collection is related to explorations and discovery, because so many of those took place by way of the oceans and rivers of the world. We have objects related to the big names in exploration and also some who are not as famous. So I was interested a few months ago to hear a news report refer to an explorer I had not heard of: Matthew Henson. I went straight to our database to learn more!

我听到的报告讨论了1940年7月4日至9月2日在芝加哥在芝加哥举行的美国黑人博览会建造的20个西洋镜的保护。最初有33张西洋镜，但有13个消失了。塔斯基吉大学的传统博物馆正在利用北欧山脉的保护来帮助教授有保存经验的黑人艺术学生。这将有助于在保护领域建立多样性。这些西洋镜各自展示了美国历史上的重要故事，这些故事以克里斯普斯·阿塔克斯（Crispus Attucks），第一次世界大战Harlem Hellfighters，测量师Benjamin Banneker和Arctic Explicer Matthorer Matthew Henson等为特色。Read more

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Money Makes the World Go ‘Round: Ancient Greek Coin

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古希腊银币的正面
Obverse side of Silver Phoenicia Aradus, 4th C BCE, silver, Accession #1937.0483.000005

今年年初，我遇到了一篇文章弗吉尼亚飞行员that discussed a coin collection held at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum in Hatteras, NC. All of the coins, 55 in total, were found on the beaches of the Outer Banks by a couple who visited the barrier islands starting around 1940. Impressively, some of the coins are over 2,000 years old and come from Ancient Greece and Rome. My mind raced – I immediately wondered if our own museum held similar coins.

To say I was surprised would be an understatement. We have more than a few coins from the ancient world, some of which are in excellent condition like the silver piece above. On this coin that is well over 2300 years old, we see a floating galley on the reverse and a curious figure on the obverse. Some records of similar coins from the Phoenician city of Arados label their male figure as Poseidon, or sometimes Zeus, but these are Greek deities.Read more

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Success (and Liquor) on the Rocks

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在岩石上的成功，LE1452。可以在约翰·汉密尔顿·摩尔（John Hamilton Moore）的1778年书本第94页之后找到图像，“在线航行和旅行的新收藏”，在线这里.

2020 has been a rocky year but humor has definitely helped me along the way. So when I stumbled onto this print and couldn’t stop laughing, I knew that I had to share it. The print is titled “The Success wedged on a Rock, being at the same time between the fire of the Spanish Fort at Umata and a Ship in the Harbour.”Irony anyone?

有了如此有趣的标题，我更深入地挖了很多笑。船长Successwas John Clipperton, a British sailor who was born in 1676 and joined Captain William Dampier onSaint George从1703 - 1704年开始前往太平洋的探险。这次航行给了克里普顿对太平洋岛屿的知识，当他带领对丹皮尔的叛变并留在奖品船上时，他就得到了很好的利用。这并不顺利：西班牙在巴拿马俘虏并在巴拿马囚禁了四年，在Juan Antonio Rocha Carranza，Marquis de Villa-Rocha。Read more

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La Isabel项目：第三部分

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Fibers used for caulking between two strakes. Image courtesy of The Mariners’ Museum and Park.

Hello again and happy November!

I’m back for another installment ofLa Isabelproject and this week we’re talking about one of my favorite parts of conservation: science! Conservation is an interesting field because it’s highly interdisciplinary. One week I’ll use skills I gained from history courses to research an artifact (check out my第二博客文章）, another I’ll be using technical photography skills for documentation (see my第一博客文章), and then on a week like this I may be using my chemistry and biology knowledge to analyze an artifact!Read more