AURAKA and IDIA, 20-Foot Class at Seawanhaka Cup Trials, 1897

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, NY, Oyster Bay
1897-07-12
emulsion on glass
8 x 10 x 0 in.

8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles on July 12, 1897. Image of 33' L.E. Fry Boat Company 20 Foot Class sloop AURAKA (built in Clayton, NY)and 30' 20 Foot Class sloop IDIA at trial races for the Seawanhaka Cup off Oyster Bay, NY. Visible in image: port beam view of AURAKA (Q 47) and IDIA (10) on starboard broad reaches under gaff-rigged mainsails and jibs, AURAKA's mainsail is double reefed and a small jib, IDEA is under full sail heeled over and almost leaping out of the water. Sun sparkling on water and land in background. Handwritten on negative sleeve: “Y360 "Auraka + Idia" / Box 36”. Handwritten neg. margin: "851 / Auraka + Idia July 12 97'. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 31 and 108.

AURAKA sloop, O Class, #47; IDIA sloop, #10
Y.1984.187.360

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer