"Story Yard, 13 October 1912"

soft negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Fisher, Henry Donald
USA, MA, Essex
1912-10-13
3-1/4 x 5-1/4 in.

Soft negative, photographed by Henry Donald Fisher (1882-1961); donor's information handwritten on envelope "4 schooners on stocks at Story Yard, Essex, Mass., 1912, one schooner KNICKERBOCKER, small craft in foreground"; negative number handwritten on negative upper right "A 77-7E"; negative for photograph 1974.1057.15. Scene is at A. D. Story yard, October 13, 1912; vessels on the building ways are DELPHINE CABRAL, MARY F. RUTH, KNICKERBOCKER, and RUTH; outside joiner Peter Hubbard, who worked at the Story yard is aboard sailboat DOROTHY (without mast) in foreground in water. See German, "Down on T Wharf", page 33.

1976.208.349