DEFENDER Sailing on Long Island Sound, 1899

silver gelatin print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, NY, Brooklyn
1899 (original negative)
overall: 8 x 10 in.; 20.32 x 25.4 cm

8x10 silver gelatin print from 8x10 glass plate negative taken by Charles Edwin Bolles in 1899. Image of sloop DEFENDER at America's Cup Challenge. Visible in image: starboard bow view of the sloop DEFENDER with gaff-rigged mainsail, topsail, genoa jib and spinnaker raised, crew at work, vessel in background. Stamped on back in blue: "COPYRIGHT / MORRIS ROSENFELD, N.Y." and in rectangular box: "MORRIS ROSENFELD / PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR / 116 NASSAU STREET, N.Y. / Phone BEekman 3-4970". Written on back: "Defender 1899".

not on web 10-28-05
Y.1984.187.421B.1

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection