E.Z. SLOAT, sandbagger, ca. 1896

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Long Island Sound
1896
emulsion on glass
8 x 10 in.

8 x 10 glass plate negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles circa 1896. Image of 21' Christopher Smith sandbagger E.Z. SLOAT (built 1893). Visible in image: starboard beam view of the sandbagger sloop E. Z. SLOAT (R3) under gaff-rigged mainsail and club-footed jib, private signal- dark swallow tail with white star-flies from mainsail. Sandbaggers were centerboard hulls, about 15 feet long with enormous rigs. Their ballast included a 50-pound sandbag for each crewman to shift after each tack. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Z. Rosenfeld, page 18. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "E.Z. Sloat Y593 / Sloop / Box 60 / Bolles". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

Y.1984.187.593

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer