Welcome to BLINK, a new blog, in which we will share news relating to The Mariners’ Museum’s Photographic Collection. BLINK will also be the landing place where we archive photographs submitted by the community that are related to Museum-sponsored workshops.
The inspiration for this blog grew out of public programming for two photographic exhibitions that opened in October, 2017: Another Look: Marine Photography from 1948-1972 and Views of the Baltic Sea: Contemporary Photographs from Greifswald, Germany.
Today, I’d like to kick off the blog with one of the most creative, albeit oddball finds in the Photography Collection. Back in the day, long before computers, digital cameras and photo-editing software, one photographer devised a curious method to add clouds to a photograph.


Was this simply an experiment or did he decide it wasn’t worth the effort? Out of more than 1300 negatives in our collection of Sedgwick negatives, only these two had this augmentation. Ah, the mysterious unknown!
[originally posted 2018]
Great new blog! Looking forward to more. Thanks!
Not sure where to apply. I am a US Veteran from service in the Merchant Marine of WW II that worked on several old wooden hulled coast-wise barges that moved bulk cargo from the Norfolk, VA area to defense plants along our coastal pots North and am interested in that type of water traffic showing photographs of these barges as they lay at anchor in Hampton Roads awaiting their tug to move out to sea. Am I in the right spot?. Thanks,.
Don-
You reached the right person, however, we are in the midst of a collection move. I should be able to help you later this month; expect an email from me today and we will continue this outside the blog. Thank you! Sarah Scruggs