ALLEGRA, express steam yacht, 1895

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Long Island Sound
August 03, 1895
eemulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in

8x10 in. glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles dated August 3, 1895. Image of the express steam cruiser ALLEGRA underway, port beam view. The vessel contains several people. In the deckhouse there is a man at the wheel and a young man in a cap partially hanging out of the window behind him. There is a man (a steward?) standing half out of a skylight from the cabin which is directly in back of the deckhouse. Three quarters of the way down the boat is a lifeboat in back of which is a partial view of a man sitting with one leg crossed over the other. At the stern section of the boat are the passengers, a man talking to two women in Japanese dress. ALLEGRA was a 76' express steam cruiser also identified in Lloyds 1909 as a screw launch, built and designed by the Charles L. Seabury & Company in 1891 in Nyack, New York for Charles M. Pratt. Her new name when sold in 1905 was HORNET. Handwritten neg. sleeve info: "ALLEGRA / Y10 / Box 1". Handwritten on emulsion side of glass edge: "ALLEGRA [?] 1895 ALLEGRA 3". Typed on glued caption on surface edge: "271 / ALLEGRA 2, 1895". Info. from the edge of the glass plate dates this image as Aug. 3, 1895. The adhered caption dates it a day earlier. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

ALLEGRA steam cruiser
Y.1984.187.10

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer