Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

1/1/1981 - 8/31/1981

Funding Totals

$5,690.00 (approved)
$5,690.00 (awarded)


Dogwatch and Liberty Days: An Exhibit/Project on the Deepwater American Sailor, 1820-1880

FAIN: GM-*0206-81

Peabody Essex Museum, Inc. (Salem, MA 01970-3726)
Peter J. Fetchko (Project Director: July 1980 to October 1990)

To support planning for an exhibit on the life and work of the 19th-century deepwater sailor featuring the tools and products of sailors' trades as well aswatercolors and sketches from ship logs and sailors' private journals.