The library and collections center houses many tools of the Chesapeake maritime trades and fisheries. Figureheads, anchors, ceramics, textiles, rigging gear, decorative carvings, paper ephemera, and navigational instruments are represented. CBMM also has an extensive collection of more than 600 Maryland and Virginia oyster tins.
Carpenter’s tool chest made by Leonard E. Pryor c. 1900. 2006.0006.00059.01
Oyster cans in CBMM collections storage.