Four scrapbook albums related to the boat builder Sunflower Boat Works have been donated to the Antique Boat Museum (ABM) by International Advisory Council Member Dave Bortner.
Sunflower Boat Works, located on Tomahawk Lake, Wisconsin, is a historic regional boat builder near and dear to donor Dave Bortner’s heart. The proprietor, Fabian Woodzicka, was an interesting and busy character, operating the Sunflower Resort, Sunflower Boat Works and an antique automobile museum. Bortner acquired several Sunflower items, including catalogs and the scrapbooks Fabian used to document his boat building career.
Prior to Bortner’s donation, the museum did not have any information on Sunflower Boat Works in the Marion Clayton Link Archives. The addition of these four albums expands the resources available to museum staff and other researchers on the different boat builders of the United States.
For the last three years, ABM has made a concerted effort to increase digital access to the archival collections.
To view the archive, visit hub.catalogit.app/8933.
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