FANNY, sloop 1892

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
1892-08-04
glass
8 x 10 x 0 in.

8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles on August 4, 1892. Image of the 78' D.O. Richmond sloop FANNY (built 1874 in Mystic, CT). Visible in image: port beam view of FANNY running before the wind under a gaff-rigged mainsail, topsail, staysail, jib, and spinnaker, group of people aboard, tender up on davits, American flag flying from gaff, burgee from masthead. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 2 and 107. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "Fanny Y441 1937 Box 45".

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Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer