Collection of Photographs, Clippings, Documents and Accounts Relating to Brooks Shipyard, East Boston.
Ephemera.
Price: $750
About thirty-five 8 x 10 photographic prints of John Brooks, the shipyard building, half hulls and vessels built by the yard between 1870 and 1905. Also, a list of vessels built at the yard under its several owners, an envelope of related clippings and documents, and a day book of shipyard activity 1874 – 1882. In his definitive work “Portrait of a Port” historian William Bunting refers to John Brooks as a “master builder.” Bunting uses the photograph of Brooks in front of his office in the book, and writes, “Shipbuilder John Brooks poses in the doorway of his classic East Boston office at 334 Border Street. His yard, in the background, occupied a portion of the grounds of the old Donald McKay yard… Brooks served as McKay’s foreman for six years… [he] was the last of the old time Boston shipbuilders.”