HESTER, cutter, port beam view, ca. 1901

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
Circa 1901
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles ca. 1901. Image of HESTER, undersail, port beam view on a very mild starboard tack with no topsails rigged. HESTER was a 90' cutter, also called a 60 Rater, built by C. Hansen and Sons of Cowes, England from designs by William Fife, Jr. in 1895. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "Y-463 / Hester / Box 30". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

HESTER sloop
Y.1984.187.463

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer