Photographs from the archives of the Mariners' Museum depict shipbuilding, pleasure craft, naval confrontations, shipwrecks, and icebreakers

This engaging photograph album of Yale's third century--punctuated with essays by past and present notables of the Yale community and by Benson's own commentary--moves from Old Yale at the turn of the century to challenges facing the university in the new millennium. 150 quadratones, 55 color illustrations.

"This book depicts the relationships of mariners with their vessels and the sea. Each photograph chronicles a fragment of the mariner's experience over the past 200 years - shipbuilding, the making of a wooden skiff, commercial fishing and whaling, amateur sailing, deep-sea diving, naval encounters, and much more." "In his introduction, John Szarkowski shares his artistic rationale for selecting the particular images that appear in this book. Benson's essays, which accompany the photographs, unify image and story in a vignette of time and place, of historical, societal, and individual meaning." "This book is the catalogue for a traveling exhibition that will open in December 1997 at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia."--BOOK JACKET.

Despite being a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and of the British Society of Poster Designers, Kenneth Denton Shoesmith (1890-1939) is little known today, yet his maritime art perfectly captures the romance and adventure of ocean liner travel in the early 20th century.

159 rare photos depict stages in ship's construction and its christening, intimate views of modern lounges, staterooms, dining rooms, promenade and pool, theaters, ballroom, and play decks. Captions. 159 black-and-white photos.