EUGENIA, port side view at rest, ca. 1901
black-and -white negative
PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVESBolles, Charles Edwin
USA, RI, Block Island Sound
Circa 1901
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.
8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles ca. 1901 of the steam yacht EUGENIA, at rest, port beam view probably on Block Island Sound. EUGENIA was an 84'6" steam yacht built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island from designs by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff in 1895 for his brother John B. Herreshoff who owned her until 1903 when he had a new EUGENIA launched for 1904. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "Eugenia / Y-113 / Box 12". Handwritten from emulsion margin on the negative: "Eugenia / 1537". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.
EUGENIA steam yacht
Y.1984.187.113
Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer