AURAKA and IDIA, 20-Footer sloops at Seawanhaka Cup Trials, 1897

copy print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, NY, Oyster Bay
1897-07-12
paper
8 x 10 x 0 in.

8x10 copy print from 8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles on July 12, 1897. Image of 33' L.E. Fry Boat Company 20-footer sloop AURAKA (built in Clayton, NY)and 30' 20 footer 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. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 31 and 108. Handwritten on back: "Auraka + Idia / Y360".

Y.1984.187.360.1

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer