USER INSTRUCTIONS: ANTIQUE TRANSPORTATION SCREEN SAVER: TALL SHIPS Vol.1 Your screen saver program has been installed into the Windows(tm) Desktop of the Control Panel. BE CERTAIN YOUR MONITOR IS SET TO 256 COLOR PALETTE. If you have an old generic VGA monitor which can only display 16 colors, I'm afraid these images will look terrible. Sorry. Accessing your screen saver is easy and requires only three steps: I. Load the Control Panel II. Run the Desktop option III. Select your screen saver ======================================================================= I. Load the Control Panel The Control Panel is generally found in the MAIN group of your Program Manager. Execute the Control Panel by double clicking the Control Panel icon. If you cannot find the MAIN group or the Control Panel icon, you can run the control panel from the File Manager by double clicking CONTROL.EXE in your main Windows directory (usually called WINDOWS). ======================================================================= II. Run the Desktop option To run the Desktop option of the control panel, double click the Desktop icon in the Control Panel. ======================================================================= III. Select your screen saver Use the 'Screen Saver' area of your Desktop screen to select your screen saver. You may use the Test button to preview your screen saver and the Setup button to assign a password and activate/deactivate your mouse. ############################################################################# THREE GOOD REASONS TO REGISTER! 1) YOU WILL RECEIVE ELEVEN (11) ADDITIONAL RARE IMAGES OF TALL SHIPS. (Actually, you will get 12 new photos because the photo of the schooner launching with the registration reminders will no longer have this text upon it.) THESE ARE ROYALTY FREE and may be used in any project, private or commercial, subject to one restriction. See below. 2) THE REGISTRATION REMINDERS WILL NOT APPEAR DURING YOUR SLIDE SHOW. 3) You will be supporting an important project in which we are preserving and restoring archival transportation photography, making individual images available to design professionals at a cost of $1.00 or less each. Compare that price with those typically charged by stock photography agencies. If you are a hobbyist, tall ship enthusiast or nautical historian, you can build a collection of rare and important images at very little cost. Such photographs rarely appear in the antique market, and when they do, prices are typically in the range of $20 to $60 each. 4) Only registered users will have access to our tech support. Ben Blumenberg Reality Software P.O. Box 105 1015 Main Street Waldoboro, ME 04572-0105 Phone: (207) 832-7348 - Most days noon to 9 PM EST. World Wide Web - http://www.maine.com:80/reality/Welcome.html E-mail: Internet - bennett@pipeline.com (almost daily mail run); or CompuServe - 71044,1645 (least preferred) ******************************************************************* SCREEN SAVER ORDER FORM: ANTIQUE TRANSPORTATION: TALL SHIPS Vol.1 To order, simply fill our this form and mail to: REALITY SOFTWARE, P.O. BOX 105, WALDOBORO, ME 04572-0105 U.S.A. 3 1/2" HD Disks Only - Quantity _____ x $US15 = Total ______ NOTE: Reality Software is a small company and cannot accept credit cards or bank drafts in foreign currencies. Please remit in $US or International Money Order with such drafts made out to Ben Blumenberg. Price includes shipping and handling costs to anywhere on this planet. NAME ______________________________________________________ COMPANY ___________________________________________________ ADDRESS1 __________________________________________________ ADDRESS2 __________________________________________________ TOWN/CITY _________________________________________________ STATE/PROVINCE ____________________________________________ ZIP or POSTAL CODE _______________COUNTRY _________________ Where did you acquire ships1wn.zip? _________________________ Internet E-mail address for announcements, catalogs, etc. ____________________________________________________________ **************************************************************** LICENSE AGREEMENT: ANTIQUE TRANSPORTATION: TALL SHIPS Vol.1 What 'Royalty Free' means. As owner of either the shareware version or registered version of this screen saver, you have a single user license. You have also acquired royalty free rights to the USE of the individual graphics files: file names are given below. Understand that this royalty free license applies only to the USE of the files i.e. their image content, NOT to the reproduction and sale of the graphics files themselves. These images may be used as design elements in any publication or software product that you author, whether or not it is offered for sale in the retail marketplace. Examples of legal use would be illustrations in news media, catalogs or books. Illegal examples of image use would include the design of your own screen saver using the ship photos and/or the inclusion of the ship graphic files into retail graphic file collections of any sort. These distinctions are the same as those that apply to the use of copyright fonts and their font files. Needless to say, it is also illegal for you to redistribute and resell this screen saver product. YOU MAY NOT COPY AND DISTRIBUTE IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER, BE IT PRIVATE OR COMMERCIAL, ANY OF THE ORIGINAL FILES THAT COMPRISE THIS PRODUCT. This means that you cannot redistribute in any manner this screen saver product as your own publication. *************************************************************************** INFO & FILE LIST: ANTIQUE TRANSPORTATION: TALL SHIPS Vol.1 The Archive These photographs of great sailing vessels are taken from our private collection of classic sailing ship photography which took many years to assemble. With a few exceptions, none have ever been published before in any medium and then only many decades ago. Many of the original prints are sepia toned but they are reproduced here in black and white which is truer to the majority of the original prints when new. Also realize that many of these photographs were taken and printed by less than expert photographers. Often a significant area of the image is slightly out of focus and the grey scale is severely reduced resulting in a less than adequate range of middle tones. A few of these photographs date from the early years of photography and cameras were less than technically adequate as judged by today's standards. Furthermore, many of these prints were exposed to excessive sunlight and have faded. Dirt and dust were embedded in many of the negatives and are visible in such prints. A number of prints have suffered physical damage over the years which include creases and slits in the emulsion as well as degradation of the glossy emulsion layer itself. While purists may wish that we had not restored these photographs, the fact remains that in their original condition the majority would be unusable and unattractive. If you wish copies of the original scans, you may contact us directly. The price is $50 per file and they are royalty free as are these images. But beware, they look terrible! Most are very dark and damages are emphasized because of the resolution of the scanning process. We meticulously restored each image using industry standard, heavy weight graphics programs expressly designed for this purpose. We firmly believe that we have preserved the historical integrity of each photograph. My wife, Leslie, is an exceptional graphics technician and did the final restoration of each image. Realize that these images are in 256 grey scale so set your monitor to a 256 color palette. We also recommend setting your monitor to maximum brightness and contrast when viewing these images; such are the settings we used when editing. You will then have the best possible viewing environment. Here is the historical information that could be reliably ascertained for each photo. Remember that if you have not registered you have only four of these fifteen graphics files which are indicated by an asterisk *. REGISTER TODAY!! How can you be satisfied with only four of these great sailing ship photos? 1. 3schoon2.tif - Laid up at Philadelphia, PA, three four masted schooners wait out their last days (date unknown). From left to right, they are the Francis J. McDonald, the Marie F. Cummins and an unknown ship. 2. 6mast2.tif - The launch of a huge six masted schooner is seen here at a locality that suggests Rockland, Maine. 3. bisbee2.tif - The William S. Bisbee was a three masted schooner built at Rockland, Maine, in 1902. She had a tonnage of 309, was 133' long, with a beam of 31.2' and a depth of 9.3'. 4. brig1-2.tif - The Carl Vinnen is a four masted brig seen here leaving the Philadelphia, PA, harbor in 1937. 5. brig2-2.tif - The Dirigo was a steel hulled, four masted brig built at Bath, Maine in 1894. She had a tonnage of 3005 with a length of 312', a beam of 45' and a depth of 25.6'. She was designed by J.F. Waddington originally of Liverpool, England and she was typically British. Her only American touch was in her rig - single topgallants, royals and skysails. She sailed the Pacific for many years with cargo runs to Japan, Hawaii and Australia. Sold to a transportation company in Anchorage, Kentucky (!) in 1916, the Dirigo was then based in Pensacola, Florida. Sometime after 6AM on the morning of May 31, 1917, she was sunk by a German submarine in the English Channel. 6. brown2.tif - This fine photo shows the launching of the Dean E. Brown, a four masted schooner, at the Cobb, Butler & Co. yard on October 23, 1907. No direct information exists as to the location of this shipyard but several tall ships with the surname Brown were built in Bath, Maine and the Cobb and Butler surnames are common in Thomaston, Maine. Ceremonial flags fly from the masts and many men and women are visible. 7. cooper2.tif - This is an extraordinary photograph of cooper at work on the dock surrounded by large barrels with several schooners and brigs visible in the background. The locality is unknown. 8. denson2.tif - The Thomas S. Dennison is a three masted bark. This picture was likely taken off mid-coast, Maine. 9. evadne2.tif - The three masted schooner Evadne loaded with lumber is seen here at a dock in Bath, Maine, September 25, 1906. 10. glouc2.tif - Perhaps the gem of our sailing ship collection, this panorama of the Gloucester, Massachusetts, harbor likely dates from the third quarter of the 19th century. A 3 masted brig is tied up at a lumber wharf. A seine loft is clearly visible as are many other buildings, ships and horse drawn wagons. 11. kingswy2.tif - The launch of the four masted schooner Kingsway is seen here at Mystic Connecticut in 1918 in a marvelous panoramic photo that shows another schooner under construction and a many visitors who arrived in automobiles. The building of great wooden sailing ships had nearly ceased by this date. Mystic Connecticut now boasts a world famous historic seaport which allows visitors to experience the waterfront of a 19th century whaling port. kingwy2a.tif* - Nag Screen 12. little2.tif - In the early 1950's the Luther Little (seen here) and the Hesper were towed to Wiscasset, Maine by a group intending upon restoring them for use as a tourist attraction. The group failed to raise the necessary funds and the two four masted schooners were left at dockside to slowly disintegrate. This photograph probably dates from the early years of their residence in Wiscasset. These two schooners are still there, the Hesper nearly unrecognizable while the hull and two masts of the Luther Little are still intact. 13. machias2.tif - A three masted schooner is seen here at anchor in the harbor of Machiasport, Maine sometime before 1909. Notice the unusual small steam boat. 14. palmer2.tif - In the twilight of the great shipbuilding era, William F. Palmer of Boston commissioned shipyards in Bath and Waldoboro, Maine, to build a fleet of 12 five masted schooners. The George L Welt yard in Waldoboro (our home town) built six of these schooners between 1900 and 1904. The launching of the Paul Palmer is seen here in a remarkable photo taken on the shore of the Medomak River in 1902. She was 276' feet in length with a gross tonnage of 2193. The Paul Palmer was lost in a fire off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, June 15, 1913. 15. stoning2.tif - A three masted schooner is seen here at the dock of the Stonington Fuel and Lumber Co. whose coastline suggests Maine. Many buildings are visible in this nice harbor scene. ************************************************************************* RELEASES SCHEDULED FOR 1995 AND BEYOND! Additional releases in our series of screen savers whose theme is antique transportation will be forthcoming. Each registered version will contain 15 royalty free, 8 bit TIF images in 256 grey scale. These photographs are rare: most exist as single prints made by photographers many, many decades ago, some more than a century old. These archival images are of extraordinary interest, to historians, hobbyists and design professionals. The majority have never been published before in any medium and their intrinsic interest is exceptional. The originals comprise our personal collection which took many, many years to accumulate. This series offers you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire a collection of the rarest transportation photography which is truly of museum quality. Except for an occasional old stereo card, there is no possibility that you would see any of these prints in the public marketplace. 1) Additional screen savers which feature 19th century locomotives will be released in the coming months. If you purchase the entire collection, there will be no duplicate photos! 2)1995 will see the publication of a screen saver which features classic sailboats of the type often used by families for recreational sailing or the very wealthy as private yachts. 3) Also scheduled for 1995 release is a screen saver of antique bicycle images. Obtaining a variety of early bicycle photos is one of the most difficult collecting tasks in the realm of historic transportation photography. 4) In 1996, we plan to publish screen savers that feature archival photography of early trolley cars, electric trains, late 19th and early 20th century warships and early aviation. The format of each registered product will remain the same: 15 superb, royalty free images for $15. Stock photo agencies typically charge license fees in excess of $100 for commercial use of their images. There will be no duplicate photos throughout our entire collection of archival transportation screen savers. If you register this product, you will automatically be placed upon our mailing list to be notified as each volume in the Antique Transportation Screen Saver series is released. Be certain to indicate an e-mail address on the registration form: we distribute a great deal of our publicity as e-text. *********************************************************************** See catalog.txt on disk 3 to read about our extraordinary e-books for DOS and Windows in ancient history and the history of religion. *********************************************************************** Copyright 1995 Ben Blumenberg Reality Software 1015 Main Street Waldoboro, ME 04572-0105 Phone: (207) 832-7348 World Wide Web - http://www.maine.com:80/reality/Welcome.html (on or about April 20, 1995) E-mail: Internet - bennett@pipeline.com (almost daily mail run); or CompuServe - 71044,1645 (least preferred) ************************************************************************