Model of Tobacco Ship "Brilliant"

Summary

Caption from Torch: "This 13-foot model of the American Revolution period tobacco ship "Brilliant" is now on display in temporary quarters on the first floor of the [National] Museum of History and Technology. According to Melvin Jackson, MHT curator of maritime history, the model will reside permanently in the Museum's Hall of American Maritime History when it opens in 1977. The model, made for the Smithsonian by Charles and N. Davis Newcomb of Trappe, Md., is one-tenth the size of the original, and constructed of the same type of wood."

Subject

• Smithsonian Institution Office of Public Affairs
• National Museum of History and Technology
• Brilliant (Ship : 1775-1776)

Notes

• Original film available in SIA Acc. 11-009.
• Featured in the "Torch," November 1976.

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: November 1976, Image No. 76-12958

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

• 1976
• July 22, 1976

Restrictions & Rights

• No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
• No Copyright - United States

Topic

• Navigation
• Models (representations)
• Exhibitions
• History
• Ship models
• Navigation--History
• Models and modelmaking

Form/Genre

Black-and-white photographs

Local number

SIA RU000371 [76-12958]

Physical description

8 x 10;

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