3-Masted Schooner WILLIAM H. HOPKINS after launching, Mystic, Connecticut, 1876

photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
Scholfield, Everett Augustus
USA, CT, Mystic
1876
paper
picture 12-7/16 x 13-5/16 in.; mat 15" x 16"

Photograph; port view of 3-masted schooner WILLIAM H. HOPKINS; handwritten in ink on cardboard backing "Schr. "William H. Hopkins."/ 133 x 32 x 9. by Geo Greenman & Co. Mystic, 1876 for Hopkins & Pomeroy, Providence R.I. coal carrier./ sister boat was The "George W Pomeroy"/ Photo by E. A. Scholfield - Collection of Dr. C. K. Stillman, Mystic, Conn. 1932." Picture taken probably following launching as the vessel sailed for Providence at that time with considerable party aboard. Boat lost on Rockaway Beach, L.I. Mallory Sail Loft in background; tugboat along side, possibly DR. S. N. BRIGGS. See "Mystic Built" page 243. Duplicates: 1938.537, 1965.859.17, 1974.315, 1977.92.664.

1974.315