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Box 17

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Edward Teddy Bolton Tucker Photographs

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes the papers of Edward "Teddy" Bolton Tucker. They include his work as a skin diver in and around Bermuda waters. Teddy devoted a significant amount of his professional life studying marine life and exploring wrecks off coastlines. He is best known for discovering the Tucker cross, an emerald encrusted 22 karat gold cross, in 1955 from the Spanish galleon shipwreck the "San Pedro". He sold it to the Government of Bermuda in 1959. Unfortnately, by 1975 it was...
Dates: 1760-1990; Majority of material found within 1800-1900