WOODS HOLE MA CAPE COD PROF. BAIRDS TUGBOAT USS BLUE LIGHT - 1873
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Rare early original vintage stereoview of Professor Baird’s Fish Commision tugboat USS BLUE LIGHT entering the harbor at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Back has ink inscription, “Prof. Baird’s steamer - Fish Commission” and is signed “Hatch” possibly Capt. Joseph Hatch or more likely one of his decendants. There were a number of “Hatch’s” living in the Woods Hole area at that time.
USS Blue Light was a steam tug built for the United States Navy during the Am...erican Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as an ordnance tugboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.
The tug was placed in commission at Washington, D.C. on June 27, 1873 and, the following day, sailed for the coast of Maine to perform special service under the United States Commissioner on Fish and Fisheries. At the end of this assignment, she arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire on September 6, and she was decommissioned there on the 13th.
Fisheries research began in Woods Hole as early as 1871, but a permanent station did not exist until 1885.
The Woods Hole Laboratory, founded in 1871, is the nation's oldest marine research station, and is the original laboratory of today’s National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It also houses the nation’s oldest public aquarium, the Woods Hole Science Aquarium.
Woods Hole as a center of marine science was conceived and developed largely by one man, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian at the time. He was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1871 as the first US Commissioner of Fisheries.
This stereoview was given to me by my late aunt Josephine Crane who lived in Woods Hole for a number of years.
Stereoview photograph measures 3 1/2 x 7 inches and is in very good condition with light surface wear. There are no bends, tears, or creases and the images are very sharp and have strong tones with good contrast and clarity.
Please email with any questions and please "VIEW SELLERS OTHER ITEMS". Thanks.
Back has ink inscription, “Prof. Baird’s steamer - Fish Commission” and is signed “Hatch” possibly Capt. Joseph Hatch or more likely one of his decendants. There were a number of “Hatch’s” living in the Woods Hole area at that time.
USS Blue Light was a steam tug built for the United States Navy during the Am...erican Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as an ordnance tugboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways.
The tug was placed in commission at Washington, D.C. on June 27, 1873 and, the following day, sailed for the coast of Maine to perform special service under the United States Commissioner on Fish and Fisheries. At the end of this assignment, she arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire on September 6, and she was decommissioned there on the 13th.
Fisheries research began in Woods Hole as early as 1871, but a permanent station did not exist until 1885.
The Woods Hole Laboratory, founded in 1871, is the nation's oldest marine research station, and is the original laboratory of today’s National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It also houses the nation’s oldest public aquarium, the Woods Hole Science Aquarium.
Woods Hole as a center of marine science was conceived and developed largely by one man, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian at the time. He was appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1871 as the first US Commissioner of Fisheries.
This stereoview was given to me by my late aunt Josephine Crane who lived in Woods Hole for a number of years.
Stereoview photograph measures 3 1/2 x 7 inches and is in very good condition with light surface wear. There are no bends, tears, or creases and the images are very sharp and have strong tones with good contrast and clarity.
Please email with any questions and please "VIEW SELLERS OTHER ITEMS". Thanks.
