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Telescope PUBLISHED BY Great Lakes Maritime Institute Dossin Great Lakes Museum Belle Isle, Detroit 7, Mich. George O. Young Editor Otto Strek Assistant Editor William A. Hoey Advisory Editor William M. Worden Gordon P. Bugbee Associate Editors Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. Vessel List Editor TELESCOPE The TELESCOPE magazine is the official publication of the Great Lakes Maritime Institute. It was first published in 1952 as a sheet of announcements and meeting notices. Today it is a full-size monthly magazine, valued by members and non-members alike as a source of Great Lakes data. The TELESCOPE includes articles of interest to almost everyone, including such subjects as history, salvage, current news, and model shipbuilding. There are three monthly features, current news section, vessel list of a Great Lakes fleet, and a blueprint of a Great Lakes ship.Subscription to TELESCOPE is included in the membership fee. The editors will consider articles of Great Lakes or general marine interest for publication in TELESCOPE. Such material need not be expertly written, but must be of a nature suited to the purposes of the publication. Address any such material to: The Editors, TELESCOPE Great Lakes Maritime Institute Dossin Great Lakes Museum Belle Isle, Detroit 7, Mich. LO. 7-7W1 Address all other correspondence to the Corresponding Secretary. The editors will assume no responsibility for statements made by the authors. Supported in part by the Detroit Historical Society Printed by R. H. Davis on This Month's Issue CONTENTS ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Thoms I. Starr.......... . .23-25 CURATOR'S CORNER by Robert E. Lee............ .... 26 PICTURE PAGE by Emory J. Massman, Jr...... .....27 MODEL FORUM by Kenneth L. Fairbanks..... .....28 THE SIX MISFITS by John F. Miller........... .....29 BLUEPRINT-STARLITE........... ..30-31 THE BIG SPLASH by Rev. J. Dowling,S.J...... .....32 FLEET LIST by Rev. Edw. J. Dowling,S.J. ..34---35 GREAT LAKES NEWS by Robert B. Radurjz........................36-39 OUR COVER PICTURE The cover features a little known photograph of the Steamer Globe taken sometime between 1860 and 1864. The scene is the Rose and Fox dock at Northport, Michigan. Center foreground is the steam tug Liviathan. Can anyone identify the sailing vessel? The picture is from a copy print by E.O.Clark, made by kind permission of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Regular Membership........$4 annually Contributing Membership..$5 annually Sustaining Membership...$10 annually Life Membership...........$100 Membership by the Calendar Year Single Copies 35$