Contributed by Bob and Callie Connor through Westport Island History Committee
Description
Pictured is a detail of the mural on the side wall beneath the staircase of the Cornelius Tarbox House. This detail shows a gaff-rigged sailboat in the center foreground. One of the two figures on board stands in a commanding position.
According to "The Shipping Days of Old Boothbay" (1938), Cornelius Tarbox, Jr., who built this house in 1848-1850, "owned and operated fishing craft; sailed by his son, James L. (1823-1907)." James was not the only family member whose livelihood was the sea. Cornelius Tarbox, Jr. and his wife, Ruth Riggs Jewett (1790-1866), had 12 children many of whom were seafarers or married seafarers.
About This Item
- Title: White sails on the sea mural detail, Westport Island, ca. 1858
- Creator: Flutter Focus Photography
- Creation Date: 2016
- Subject Date: circa 1858
- Location: Westport Island, Lincoln County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: CorTarbox.Mural.12.circa1858
- Collection: Cornelius Tarbox House Murals
- Object Type: Image
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