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1. The Thomas W., piloted by Capt. Floyd Ward, dredging for crabs, December, 1985 - Transparency, Slide

   Larry Chowning boarded the Iva W. at 4 a.m. on December 13, 1985 to accompany Captain Johnny Ward and crew on a blue crab dredging run. The 60' Iva W, named after Capt. Johhny's wife, was built by John Wright of Deltaville, VA in 1928. The crew this day were Floyd Johnson of Newport News and Franklin Forrest of Mathews. The Ward family owned four buy boats at the time of this trip: Ward Brothers, Nora W., Iva W. and the Thomas W. Captain Johnny W...

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2. The Tom Rubino built boat "Ann Martin" - Negative, Film

   "Ann Martin," built by Tom Rubino

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3. The Virginia-Sue on the railway at Deagle's - Negative, Film

   Larry Chowning's story "Virginia-Sue gets a makeover," was published in National Fisherman, August, 2000. "Deagle’s Marine Railway has just finished a rebuilding job on the Virginia Sue, a 65-foot Chesapeake Bay-built deck boat owned and operated by New Jersey fishermen Marvin "Glenn" Armstrong. He’s using the Virginia Sue to fish in the Atlantic Ocean off the New Jersey coast."

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4. The Ward Brothers crab dredging - Transparency, Slide

   Larry Chowning boarded the Iva W. at 4 a.m. on December 13, 1985 to accompany Captain Johnny Ward and crew on a blue crab dredging run. The 60' Iva W, named after Capt. Johhny's wife, was built by John Wright of Deltaville, VA in 1928. The crew this day were Floyd Johnson of Newport News and Franklin Forrest of Mathews. The Ward family owned four buy boats at the time of this trip: Ward Brothers, Nora W., Iva W. and the Thomas W. Captain Johnny W...

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5. The Ward Brothers, piloted by Johnny Ward's grandson, John Melvin Ward - Transparency, Slide

   Larry Chowning boarded the Iva W. at 4 a.m. on December 13, 1985 to accompany Captain Johnny Ward and crew on a blue crab dredging run. The 60' Iva W, named after Capt. Johhny's wife, was built by John Wright of Deltaville, VA in 1928. The crew this day were Floyd Johnson of Newport News and Franklin Forrest of Mathews. The Ward family owned four buy boats at the time of this trip: Ward Brothers, Nora W., Iva W. and the Thomas W. Captain Johnny W...

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6. The Willis Wilson Railway - Negative, Film

   Willis Wilson's boatyard and railway were the subject of Larry Chowning's story in the Southside Sentinel, February 9, 1995: "Willis Wilson: One of the Originals." Almost all of the small, old-time railways with rusty rails, crooked piers and sawdust floors have been replaced along the creeks and rivers of Middlesex County. The latest fixture of those bygone days who will soon retire is longtime railwayman Willis Wilson of Deltaville, part ow...

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7. The buyboat Big Muriel Ilene moored at the Lord Mott Plant. - Transparency, Slide

   Carroll Chowning, Jr. took these photos near the Lord Mott Plant at the mouth of Urbanna Creek in 1959.

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8. The buyboat Big Muriel Ilene moored at the Lord Mott Plant. - Transparency, Slide

   Carroll Chowning, Jr. took these photos near the Lord Mott Plant at the mouth of Urbanna Creek in 1959.

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9. The buyboat Colony at Conboy's - Transparency, Slide

   Scenes at the Conboy boatyard, Urbanna, VA

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10. The buyboat Mobjack on a railway - Transparency, Slide

    Photos taken by Joe Conboy, Urbanna, VA

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11. The buyboat Ocean View on a railway - Transparency, Slide

    Photos taken by Joe Conboy, Urbanna, VA

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12. The buyboat Ocean View on a railway - Transparency, Slide

    Photos taken by Joe Conboy, Urbanna, VA

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13. The buyboat Suffolk - Transparency, Slide

    Photos taken by Joe Conboy, Urbanna, VA

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14. The catfishing garvey, Reprisal - Transparency, Slide

    In September, 1989, Larry Chowning was aboard the catfishing boat Stepaside II on the Sassafras River near Chesterrtown Maryland. Skipper Buffalo Strong along with crewmember Mark Elbum were fishing for catfilsh with hoopnets, Stepaside II is a Garvey style boat built by Hulls Unlimited of Deltaville, VA and on this day the watermen expected to catch 2,000 pounds of catfish. The live fish can be sold to stock "pay lakes" in the mid-west, or the f...

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15. The converted sailboat Nannie on LaGrange Creek - Negative, Film

    Nannie was owned by J.W. Ferguson Seafood when this photo was taken.

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16. The crab dredging buyboat Ward Brothers - Transparency, Slide

    Larry Chowning boarded the Iva W. at 4 a.m. on December 13, 1985 to accompany Captain Johnny Ward and crew on a blue crab dredging run. The 60' Iva W, named after Capt. Johhny's wife, was built by John Wright of Deltaville, VA in 1928. The crew this day were Floyd Johnson of Newport News and Franklin Forrest of Mathews. The Ward family owned four buy boats at the time of this trip: Ward Brothers, Nora W., Iva W. and the Thomas W. Captain Johnny W...

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17. The deadrise workboat Traveler, built by Grover Lee Owens, Deltaville, VA - Transparency, Slide

    Deltaville boatbuilder Grover Lee Owens completed the 42' wooden boat "Traveler" in February, 1992 for waterman John Orme of Mayo, Maryland. Photos and details are included in the article "Long wait for new boat pays off," National Fisherman, December, 1992, pages 57-59. Orme planned to use the boat for crabbing. The story "Virginia Builder Still Turning Out Wooden Work Boats" also highlighted the quality of Owen's boats in a National Fisherman a...

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18. The deadrise workboat Traveler, built by Grover Lee Owens, Deltaville, VA - Transparency, Slide

    Deltaville boatbuilder Grover Lee Owens completed the 42' wooden boat "Traveler" in February, 1992 for waterman John Orme of Mayo, Maryland. Photos and details are included in the article "Long wait for new boat pays off," National Fisherman, December, 1992, pages 57-59. Orme planned to use the boat for crabbing. The story "Virginia Builder Still Turning Out Wooden Work Boats" also highlighted the quality of Owen's boats in a National Fisherman a...

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19. The hauling block is 5' aft aft of the steering station - Transparency, Slide

    Larry Chowning took photos and wrote the story "Chesapeake crabbers challenge the conventional," for National Fisherman Magazine, January, 1993, pages 39-41. This material also developed into Chapter 19 of Chesapeake Legacy, Tools and Traditions, "Bottom-line crab potting." Don Hubbard and his sons, Chris and Jeff, of Chase, Maryland pioneered a technique of fishing a 25 pot "bottom line" to catch blue crabs. Their boat, Defiance III, was custom ...

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20. The hold full of menhaden - Transparency, Slide

    Kelley Seafood of Northumberland County, VA. is part of a fleet of snapper rigs that purse seine for menhaden, selling the catch as bait to blue crab fisherman and East Coast watermen. Larry Chowning accompanied Dale George, Captain of the 65' Nereid, on a fishing run on the bay. Photos were included in the article "Small-scale menhaden purse seining is alive and well on the Chesapeake,' by Larry Chowning. The story appeared in the November, 1986...

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