Sumoria, a cruiser owned by a Houston Yacht Club member, carried Eleanor Roosevelt and her entourage during FDR's 1936 tour of the Houston Ship Channel

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Title

Sumoria, a cruiser owned by a Houston Yacht Club member, carried Eleanor Roosevelt and her entourage during FDR's 1936 tour of the Houston Ship Channel

Subject

Houston Yacht Club -- History.

Description

Sumoria was owned by Houston Yacht Club member Richard Sinclair in the 1950s.

Source

Houston Yacht Club Archives, LaPorte, Texas

Publisher

Houston Yacht Club via Rice University
Published in book form as part of “From Buffalo Bayou to Galveston Bay : the history of the Houston Yacht Club” by HYC Fleet Historian Dora F. (Sam) Akkerman, 2nd edition, 2008, Houston Yacht Club, publisher.

Date

ca. 1936

Contributor

Houston Yacht Club
Funding for the digitization of this material was provided by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission's "Train to Share: Interoperability Training for Cultural Heritage Institutions" grant and by Rice University.
Bob Bailey Studios

Rights

No commercial use. Please contact the Houston Yacht Club, Fleet Historian, at 281-471-1255 for further information on permission to publish this material. Creative Commons license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Format

Photograph

Language

eng

Type

image

Identifier

HYC00486

Is Part Of

Houston Waterways collections online at https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/36090 and http://digital.houstonlibrary.org/ (search "waterways").

Collection

Citation

“Sumoria, a cruiser owned by a Houston Yacht Club member, carried Eleanor Roosevelt and her entourage during FDR's 1936 tour of the Houston Ship Channel,” Houston Waterways, accessed May 18, 2024, https://digitalprojects.rice.edu/wrc/waterways/items/show/1299.

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