SARACEN, #25, 30' Class, starboard view on a port tack, circa 1889
black-and-white photograph
PHOTOGRAPHSJohnston, J.S.
ca. 1889
emulsion on printing paper
overall: 6 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.
6 9/16 x 8 1/4 in. photograph found in a photo album. Image of the sloop SARACEN showing a starboard view on a starboard tack, 25 on mainsail, neg. no. 94, embossed lower right "J.S. JOHNSTON/ VIEW & MARINE PHOTO/ N.Y." Image believed photographed the same day as object #1993.17.245 which was at the Seawanhaka Race, New York, June 17,1889. SARACEN, #25, 30' Class sloop, was designed by Edward Burgess and built in 1889. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, General Collection.
UNIDENTIFIED sloop yacht
1946.479.12
Mystic Seaport, General Collection