Joe Gunn

Name/Title

Joe Gunn

Entry/Object ID

1995.001.1834

Description

Grainy black and white photo reputed to be of Joe Gunn rolling a hogshead from storage to a waiting steamer at the Leonardtown wharf. There is a two-story white house on the hill separated from the wharf area by a white fence. On the right is a shed with timbers piled on the ground near it. Mr. Gunn has on a dark hat, a white shirt and dark trousers and shoes. He is also wearing suspenders. ********************************** Text on verso in black flair pen: "Joe Gunn rolling a hogsted [sic] of tobacco from the tobacco warehouse to the steamboat wharf at Leonardtown, Md. Live stock holding house The home is the former home of Mr. Homes [Holmes?] and site of Frogtown College--then the home of Walter Dorsey & family Chas E. Fenwick" Stamped in black ink 90 degrees to the other text: "Official U.S. Navy Photograph Not for publication unless officially released Naval Air Test Center Technical Information Dept. Photographic Lab Patuxent River, MD" [Mr. Fenwick's friend, Ed Stokel, had access to the photo lab at the base]

Collection

Charles E. Fenwick Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1940 - 1952

Dimensions

Dimension Notes

Print Size: 6 1/4" x 10"

Location

Container

Charles E. Fenwick Collection, Photo Box 4

Shelf

Rack 08, Shelf 4

Rack

Rack 08

Wall

West wall

Room

Archives 1

Building

Tudor Hall

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Dorsey, Walter2

Person or Organization

Gunn, Joseph (187?-1952)

Person or Organization

Stokel, Thomas Edward