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Title	Menhaden steamer Leander Wilcox at Burrows Coal Dock, Mystic.
Creator	Tingley, George E., 1864-1958.
Place	Fort Rachel (Mystic, Conn.) Mystic River (Conn.)
Topic	Fishing boats Menhaden fisheries Steamboats Boats and boating Coal trade Fertilizer industry
Topic-Organization, Vessel	Leander Wilcox (Steamboat) Annie L. Wilcox (Steamboat) Wilcox Fertilizer Company Robert Palmer & Son Shipbuilding and Marine Railway Co. (Noank, Conn.)
Theme	Environment Infrastructure Livelihood
Description	Port view of menhaden steamer Leander Wilcox tied up at Burrow's Coal Dock, Fort Rachael area, Mystic. The menhaden steamer Annie L. Wilcox is partially visible at left.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. Leander Wilcox was a screw steamer built by Robert Palmer & Son of Noank, 1903. She was owned by Leander Wilcox & Co. and was the part of the Wilcox Co. fleet into the second decade of the twentieth century. Annie L. Wilcox was a screw steamer built by Mason Crary Hill of Mystic, 1878. She was owned by for Leander Wilcox & Co. and was the first menhaden steamer in Mystic, part of what became the Wilcox Co. fleet. In later years she belonged to a New York company (1925-1931) and was stranded off Long Island in 1934. The Wilcox Fertilizer Company was a family business that processed menhaden (fish), producing oil and fertilizer. Founder Elias Wilcox and his sons were active in the menhaden fishery as well, with most of the sons serving as captains of menhaden sloops and later steamers. The Wilcox company had several steamers and sloops, some Mystic- or Noank-built. The menhaden industry was of great economic importance to the Mystic area economy, especially in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Wilcox Fertilizer company was very successful, and remained in business until 1935. The Palmer family's Noank shipbuilding and repair facility, in operation from the mid-19th century until 1914, was one of the most prominent on the east coast. It was incorporated under several names and experienced substantial growth in the second half of the 19th century, specializing in the production of utilitarian barges and floats. At the time the Leander Wilcox was built, the yard employed 400 men on average. George E. Tingley was a noted Mystic area photographer. In his early career, he was an assistant and later sometime partner of Everett A. Scholfield. After 1894 he worked independently. Mounted on gray mat, 8 x 10 in., embossed "Tingley/MYSTIC, CONN."
Date created	[between 1903 and 1915]
Physical format	1 photograph : gelatin print ; 4 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number: 1991.4 File name: IMG0069-4772.PCD
Source	Mystic Seaport
Rights	Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image are available from Mystic Seaport.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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