AMERICA, circa 1893

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Burton, James
USA, Long Island Sound
circa 1893
emulsion on glass
10 x 8 in.

8 x 10 glass plate negative photographed by James Burton circa 1893. Image of 108' George Steers design, R.H. Wilson built schooner AMERICA (built 1851 in New York) underway. Visible in image: starboard quarter view of the schooner, AMERICA (B/23) on port close reach under gaff-rigged mainsail, foresail, main topsail, fisherman's staysail, fore topsail, fore staysail, jib and flying jib, eagle on stern, sloop to port (27), another schooner off bow. Winning the America's Cup in 1851 was only the beginning of a long career for this famous vessel which included a time as a blockade-runner during the Civil War, a privately owned racer, and a training vessel at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "B-651 / The AMERICA / BURTON / CUS p. 21". Videodisc address: 3-29146. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Z. Rosenfeld, page 21. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer.

B.1984.187.651

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer