This Web site will be organized with a Bibliography that will be upgraded on a regular basis as a research tool in order to pay homage to the many writers and artists who have made significant literary and artistic contributions to the clipper ship era. Much of the artwork featured on this site has been collecting dust on library shelves for many years. We choose to dust it off and present it to the world in this fashion for all to see. It is far easier to reach the next generation in cyberspace with this material for the first time and encourage them to seek it out thereafter in libraries, museums and maritime bookstores once their interest is sparked and that is why this page exists. Although for now in our rush to get the bare bones of this site up this page is not yet completed. But we just thought that we would let you know of our intentions. The artwork illustrations featured here at the top and bottom of this page are by Frank J. Rigney and are from the book: The Clipper Ship, by Hawthorne Daniel. This book was published by Dodd, Mead & Company -New York in 1928. There are a number of Rigney's illustrations throughout this Web site. He is one of our favorite artists of the clipper ship era. There are others too deserving of this same consideration by us in the future. Another fine artist featured on this site is Jack Spurling. We will also try and pass on information in the future where some of these fine old books may be obtained, primarily from good used maritime book stores listed on our Maritime Links Page.
We also will pay homage to the many fine maritime historians of the clipper ship era that we have turned to in our quest for research material for this Web site and book. Arthur H. Clark, Carl C. Cutler, Samuel Eliot Morison, Marian Robertson, Hawthorne Daniel, Michael J. Mjelde and Peter Stanford to name but a few. We will always try to refer to their writings in the best possible light and also let people know on our Maritime Links Page where they can find their books.
When this Web site is complete in a year or so it will have an extensive bibliography complete with a search engine on the site that will serve as an index. www.eraofthe clipperships.com will remain on the Web as a permanent archive for research into the era of the clipper ships.
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