duotone print positive

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
Circa 1896 (original negative)
overall: 8.75 x 9.50; image: 8.25 x 9.50

8 x 10 Duotone print positive made by Rosenfeld and Sons, from an 8 x 10 glass plate negative taken by Charles Edwin Bolles circa 1896. Starboard beam view of the sandbagger sloop E. Z. SLOAT (R3) under sail. 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.

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