DUNGENESS, steam yacht, 1894

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, RI, Newport
June 29, 1894
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles on June 26, 1894. Image of DUNGENESS, in the foreground to the left, a 119'8" steam yacht built in 1894 by Maryland Steel Company of Sparrow's Point, Maryland from designs by George B. Mallory. Owned by Lucy Carnegie, widow of Thomas M. Carnegie and sister-in-law of philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. "The Dungeness" was the name of the winter home of the Carnegie's on Cumberland Island, Georgia. To the right in the image in the background is an unidentified launch with a deck cabin and in back of the launch to the right is another unidentified steam yacht. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "Dungeness / Y-82 / Box 9". Handwritten on negative margin in black ink upper right edge emulsion side: "Dungeness / June 29 94". Adhered to right edge of neg. surface margin is a typed caption: "302 Dungeness, June 26, 1894." Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

DUNGENESS steam yacht
Y.1984.187.82

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.