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Film, Motion Picture - BYC - Rowdy

Film, Motion Picture

2016.086.010Archive

BYC - Rowdy

Model

Model

2015.014.001Object

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

2014.002.376Photo

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

2013.103.012Photo

Print, Photographic - Full In the Wind - Photo of Robert Hopkin Painting 'Full In the Wind'

Print, Photographic

2013.048.563Photo

Full In the Wind

Print, Photographic - Scow Schooners - Photo of Robert Hopkin Painting 'Scow Schooners'

Print, Photographic

2013.048.561Photo

Scow Schooners

Print, Photographic - Off Sleeping Bear Point 'Old Zack Chandler' - Photo of Robert Hopkin Painting 'Off Sleeping Bear Point 'Old Zack Chandler

Print, Photographic

2013.048.559Photo

Off Sleeping Bear Point 'Old Zack Chandler'

Print, Photographic - Photo of Robert Hopkin Painting 'Sailing Vessels of Sande Point'

Print, Photographic

2013.048.557Photo

Drawing, Technical - No. 39, C. W. Elphicke

Drawing, Technical

2013.042.877Archive

No. 39, C. W. Elphicke

Blueprint - Yankee One-Design Class Construction Plan

Blueprint

2013.042.168Archive

Yankee One-Design Class Construction Plan

Blueprint - Yankee One-Design Class Mast

Blueprint

2013.042.167Archive

Yankee One-Design Class Mast

Blueprint - Yankee One-Design Class Boom

Blueprint

2013.042.166Archive

Yankee One-Design Class Boom

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