From collection Elmer Montgomery Collection
LB2008.15.438
Close view of sails being dried and deck looking aft with three masted schooner under sail in background. [included in the exhibit "Working Waterfronts"]
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LB2008.15.438
[included in the exhibit "Working Waterfronts"] Drying Sails, 1939 LB2008.15.438 The three-masted schooner THOMAS H. LAWRENCE looks to be at anchor drying sails on a calm day after a major refit in 1939 for a Boston owner who wanted to put her in the New Bedford to the Cape Verde Islands trade. Alongside a well littered dock is another three-master the EDWARD R. SMITH. She might be fairly fresh from getting her bow rebuilt after a spring 1937 collision with a steamer while heading for Camden with a load of coal. Coal and lumber were cargoes that allowed these schooners to eke out a living as they could call into places like Camden that had no rail connections. M. Elmer Montgomery Collection LB2008.15.438
