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Notes From the Orlop

No. 34, Pretty Hairy

No. 33, The Lesser Miseries: Annoyances, Hazards, and Travails of Earlier Life

No. 32, The Greater Miseries

No. 31, A Jostling of Contraptions

No. 30, The War from the Shipyards

No. 29, Trash to Treasures: Collectively Disposable

No. 28, Floating the Currency: Monetarily Maritime

No. 27, Maiden Voyage: Weddings to Wives in Maritime Maine

No. 26, Snagged: A Look at the Hook

No. 25, Between a Rock and a Wet Place: Death and the Mariner

No. 24, Far-Flung Finery: Formal & Frivolous Furs & Feathers

No. 23, The Artifact Track: Ten Tracks To The "Tomb"

No. 22, The Pressure's On: Powered By Air

No. 21, What is the Oldest? : Should We Care?

No. 20, Getting the Lead In: Pouring Ranger's Keel

No. 19, More Ephemeral than Ephemera: Marginalia

No. 17, Fashions That Float: Jackets of Life and Other Buoyancies

No. 16, Like Clockwork, Objects That Are All Wound Up.

No. 15, Out of Chaos: Fragments Transformed

No. 14, Artifacts of Substance (Part Two): Your Humble Servants

No. 13, Artifacts of Substance (Part One): Greasing the Skids

No. 12, In the Blink of Eye: Our Stanhope Viewers

No. 11, "Hid in Darkness": Artifact Hitchikers

No. 10, Extreme Artifacts

No. 9, Toys and Games: A Holiday Catalogue

No. 8, Before the Paint: A Marine Artist's Sketchbook

No. 7, A Phantom Artifact: the Missing Daniels Planer

No. 6, Adding It Up

No. 5, Not Quite What They Appear

No. 4, Signs of Their Times

No. 3, Three Shells: Vessels of Memory

No. 2, Surgeon's Instrument Case, ca. 1880

No. 1, The Mary Dennett Steamer Trunk