AQUILLO, steam yacht, ca. 1903

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Long Island Sound
ca. 1903
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles June 11, 1896 of the schooner rigged steam yacht, AQUILO, underway, port beam/bow view. This vessel with her name spelled 2 ways on the negative, AQUILO and AQUILLO, is believed to be the one found in The American Yacht List in 1897 as the 104' steam yacht designed by George L. Lawley and built by Lawley and Son Corp. of South Boston, Mass. in 1893. Vessel description: nameplate "AQUILO" above pilothouse. Canvas covered fly bridge, foredeck and afterdeck. No air scoop visible. Five port holes forward with 2 lifeboats on davits. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "AQUILLO / Y20 / Box 2". Typed on paper strip on edge of negative: "591 / AQUILLO II". Handwritten on emulsion side on top edge of glass plate; "Copyright / 96 / AQUILLO / 591 / June 11, 86". Note: the June 11, 1886 date on the negative may be an error or this may be a different vessel from the 104' one built in 1893. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, photographer Charles Edwin Bolles.

AQUILO steam yacht, schooner rigged
Y.1984.187.20

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer