Title
brown medium weight sailcloth
DateCirca 1950
Mediumcotton
Dimensions37 × 69 in. (94 × 175.3 cm)
Object number1977.28.22
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionA nearly square piece (with one irregular edge) of brown medium-weight sailcloth.ProvenanceIsaac F. Manchester was born in 1914 in Tiverton, RI. In the mid 1930s he came to work at his uncle's (Thomas S. Manchester) sailloft on Second Street in New Bedford which had started in 1908. After the war, Thomas Manchester moved the business to Elm Street in Dartmouth, Mass. Isaac took over the Manchesgter Yacht Sails in the 1940s and worked there until he retired in early 1970s when the business was run by his son, Isaac.On View
Not on view
Circa 1900
Peters, Charles E.
Circa 1913-1914
1745-1925
