CANADA and ZELMA, sloops on Lake Ontario, 1896

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Great Lakes, Lake Ontario
1896
glass
8 x 10 x 0 in.

8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles in 1896. Image of 57' William Fife III designed sloop CANADA (built 1896) and 55' William Fife III designed, H. Stanton built cutter ZELMA (built 1892 in Toronto) tuning up on Lake Ontario for first international fresh-water match between the United States and Canada, later the Canada's Cup Race. Visible in image: port bow view of CANADA leading ZELMA running before the wind under gaff-rigged mainsails and topsails, spinnakers and genoas, CANADA's spinnaker base is wet and she flies a Maple Leaf on a light background burgee on her mainmast, and ZELMA flies a burgee divided into four squares, two dark and two light. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 4 and 107. Handwritten on negative sleeve: “Canada + Zelma / Y387 / Box 39”.

CANADA sloop; ZELMA sloop
Y.1984.187.387

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer