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...time since the glorious American clipper ship era has the nation displayed such a keen interest in its ship activities," said President Hoover as he pushed a White House button which launched the Grace Line's 18,000-ton Santa Rosa at Kearny...
...under the leadership of Harry Collins Brown, longtime editor of Valentine's Manual, with the enthusiastic support of Banker James Speyer, Supreme Court Justice Phoenix Ingraham. For several years it occupied the old wooden Gracie Mansion on the East River, between 88th & 89th Streets, onetime country place of Clipper Ship Owner Archibald Gracie. A modern fireproof building was imperative. The city donated land, a building fund was raised, an architectural competition was held. The competition was won by dapper little Joseph Henry Freedlander, an architect high in Tammany favor, who designed the bronze Fifth Avenue traffic towers removed...
Always fascinated by the sea, he induced the Steel company to build its own fleet. He himself owns & operates the Tusitala (Samoan for Tale Bearer), one of the last clipper ships under the U. S. flag...
...Last week Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks flew it in 55 min., a record. Fastest train time is made by New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad's Yankee Clipper. 4 hr. 45 min.; fare $12.26. Other crack trains: Knickerbocker Limited, Merchants Limited; Pennsylvania Railroad's Senator, Colonial express...
...citizens have never seen a Currier & Ives print; "in the middle 19th Century almost every American home had at least one of their pictures." Subjects were of every variety except the sexy: clipper ships, famed fires, wood-burning locomotives, horse-racing, prizefights, pioneers, Prohibition propaganda, baseball, domestic scenes, deathbeds of the Presidents, etc., etc. Now collectors' items, one Currier & Ives print (The Life of a Hunter-A Tight Fix) has brought $3,000. Though many of the prints were colored, they came off the presses plain, went to a great centre table where women workers added blues, reds, greens...