[John Allcot exhibit documents]. [1969]

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[John Allcot exhibit documents]. [1969]

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Correspondence, newspaper clippings, biographical information and other items related to an exhibit of twelve Allcot paintings at the San Francisco Maritime Museum from May 19-30, 1969; includes letters between John Allcot and Karl Kortum, letters between L. Rigby Booth, Alcott's Australian agent and Karl Kortum, photocopies of certificates relating to Allcot's maritime career and a maritime activity questionnaire completed by Allcot, and a Square Rigger Club bulletin.

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San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Maritime Research Center, Maritime Library, Maritime Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7669991

San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Maritime Research Center, Maritime Library, Maritime Archives

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Kortum, Karl Arnold, 1745-1824

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Square Rigger Club (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Allcot, John, 1888-1973

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John Charles Allcot was born in Liverpool, England in 1888, and apprenticed as a lithographer and attended art classes at the Liverpool Institute and School of Art; he began working on various vessels, relocating to Sydney, Australia at age 21 where he worked on coastal and intercoastal vessels for several years, then began concentrating on painting and gained notoriety from a series of oil paintings on the founding of the Australian colonies; perhaps best known for being a painter of ships, he ...

Booth, L. Rigby

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San Francisco Maritime Museum

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The San Francisco Maritime Museum Association was incorporated in California on January 6, 1950. The formal dedication of the San Francisco Maritime Museum occurred on May 27, 1951 in the Casino Building of Aquatic Park. The San Francisco Maritime Museum had its beginnings in the San Francisco Museum of Science and Industry, which was conceived by Mrs. Alma de Brettville Spreckels in 1939 and opened to the public in 1941. The Museum of Science and Industry was comprised mainly of an impressive c...