ALICIA, underway, 1893

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Long Island Sound
July 04, 1893
eemulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in

8x10 in. glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles, July 4, 1893. Image of ALICIA underway, port beam view, dressed, with shoreline in background. ALICIA was a 160' b.p.(between perpendiculars) steam yacht built by Harlan and Hollingsworth Corporation of Wilmington, Delaware in 1890. She was owned by H. K. Flagler from 1890 to 1899 and then sold to the Federal Government and renamed HORNET until sold again in 1920. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "ALICIA / Y9 / Box 1". Handwritten on emulsion edge: "July 4, '93 ALICIA". Adhered small piece of paper to surface edge with typed note: "269 ALICIA / July 4, 1893." CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

ALICIA steam yacht, schooner rigged
Y.1984.187.9

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer