Featured Artifact
Every so often, we pick an artifact from our extensive collections and give it a special place on the web site.
This feature artifact is a wonderful moment in time--the christening of the Museum's remarkable runabout Pardon Me. This image was supplied by Mr. Bill Northup, who gave the following identification of the people in the photo:
"Holding rope on the left in the photo, Ernie Mance. Holding rope on the right in the photo Ray Rogers. In punt, Tony Dingman (son of Teddy Dingman who did all the lettering for Hutchinson's and everyone else). Tony was killed aboard the destroyer [U.S.S.] Hobson, rammed and sunk by the carrier Wasp, early '50s in the North Atlantic. Girl unknown, probably family of Mr. Lyons."
"Mr. Lyons" is Charles Lyons, for whom John L. Hacker and Hutchinson's Boat Works created this magnificent vessel. Hailed by some as the "World's Largest Runabout," Pardon Me will be on display this summer in the new McNally Yacht House. This is just one of more than 100,000 historic photographs held in the Museum's archives.
This feature artifact is a wonderful moment in time--the christening of the Museum's remarkable runabout Pardon Me. This image was supplied by Mr. Bill Northup, who gave the following identification of the people in the photo:
"Holding rope on the left in the photo, Ernie Mance. Holding rope on the right in the photo Ray Rogers. In punt, Tony Dingman (son of Teddy Dingman who did all the lettering for Hutchinson's and everyone else). Tony was killed aboard the destroyer [U.S.S.] Hobson, rammed and sunk by the carrier Wasp, early '50s in the North Atlantic. Girl unknown, probably family of Mr. Lyons."
"Mr. Lyons" is Charles Lyons, for whom John L. Hacker and Hutchinson's Boat Works created this magnificent vessel. Hailed by some as the "World's Largest Runabout," Pardon Me will be on display this summer in the new McNally Yacht House. This is just one of more than 100,000 historic photographs held in the Museum's archives.
