Allan Vaughan, the clerk for the Salem Marine Society, stands next to the upside down and backward portrait of honorary member Matthew Fontaine Maury at the headquarters of the society on the roof of the Hawthorne Hotel in Salem, Mass. The society was founded in 1766, but in 1861 the members voted to strike Maury's name from the records and to turn his picture toward the wall after he joined the South in the Civil War.
Linsey Tait / Staff photo