AL-ANKA, cutter undersail 1897

gelatin silver print; contact print

8x10 contact print from 8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles in 1897. Image of 30' Clinton H. Crane designed, George Lawley & Son Corporation built centerboard cutter AL-ANKA (built 1897 in South Boston, Mass.)undersail possibly at Seawanhaka Cup trial race off Oyster Bay, NY. Visible in image: port beam view of sloop "Q/52" on starboard broad reach under gaff-rigged mainsail and staysail, crew sitting on deck of low-lying boat, other sails in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 30 and 108. Handwritten on back: "Al Anka Y361A".

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer