SHIPNOTES, SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS INVENI PORTAM Robert A. Weinstein (1914-1995)
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"Respected maritime hi storian ," as hi s friend Jon Wilkman called him , " authority on the photographic hi story of the American West and the city of Los Angeles, author, art director and illustrator of fine books and magazines, progress ive activist, husband, father and grandfather, Robert We instein led an astonishingly full and rich life." Lacking money to fini sh hi gh school in the Depression years, he educated himself while working in arti sts ' studios, and then mi grated west to work for Walt Disney Studios in Los Angeles, 1936-39. He enlisted as an army private in World War II , serving in the European theater where he stayed on to serve as a reporter at the postwar Nuremberg trials. Returning to the US , he became a magazine art director, and later a corporate art director in Los Angeles. Hi storical photography fascinated him , and he did much to preserve glasspl ate photographs of shipping in West Coast ports, finding time also to help out with the fl edgling efforts of the South Street Seaport Museum in New York in collecting and interpreting hi storic ship photographs. He was the author of nine books, the most recent being Grays Harbor, 1885-191 3 ( 1978), and was in constant demand as a consultant to historical films and books, giving generously of hi s time and unique talents to struggling organizations that could never have paid hi s professional fees . He was a valued member of the Advisory Counci I of NMHS, among his many other charitable commitments. With hi s wife Vivian , Bob was an ideali st and a committed social ac tivist. His kind and courtly manner, and his constant concern forothers, went with his fixed resolve to make thi s world a better place. These same qualities also enabled him to interpret and express the life of wharfingers, waterfront dudes, dock wallopers, and deepwater sailormen with deep truth and understanding, qualities which shine through hi s work as through hi s life . PS
Robert Cary Caldwell (1919-1995)
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Robert Cary Caldwell , founder and president until recently of the Nantucket Life Saving Museum , died 20 April after a long battle with cancer. Bob had a lifelong love affair (some would call it an obsession) with maritime hi story, and particularly with lifesaving. In the 1950s, when Bob couldn't convince the Nantucket Hi storical Association to buy the Surfside Life Saving Station, he, Edouard Stackpole, Paul Morri s, " Doc" Kynett, Robert Mooney , Charlie Sayle and Richard Deutsch (acting as incorporators) established the Nantucket Life Saving Museum , Inc . Its large and varied collection is testament to a lifetime of collecting and preserving . Bob leaves a collection of scale mode ls of Nantucket 's hi storic steamers, ship ' s logs , papers, photographs and memorabilia of all areas of maritime hi story. He was a superb model maker and an accomplished painter. After years of searching , he located the builder' s pl ans of the old Naushon and completed a loving ly crafted five-foot scale model of the vessel only weeks before illness finally restricted hi s energetic life-style. He was also a past president of the USCGC Spencer Association and proud of hi s service on her in the North Atlantic during World War II. As a descendant of James Cary, captain of the Rose, the first Nantucket vessel involved in the China trade, he collected artifacts re lated to that era of Nantucket's hi story , many of which are in the Nantucket Hi storical Association's China trade ex hibit. Bob Caldwell has truly left hi s mark on Nantucket and the maritime world. MAUR ICE E. GIBBS , CDR, USN (Rec) President and Executive Director Nantucket Life Saving Museum
SEA HISTORY 74, SUMMER 1995
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