GRACIE, sloop, sail #35, 1893

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
1893-08-10
emulsion on glass
8 x 10 x 0 in.

8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on August 4, 1892 or August 10, 1893. Image of 81' Abraham A. Shanck designed, James E. Smith Yard built sloop GRACIE (built 1868 in Nyack, NY) at sea. Visible in image: port bow view of GRACIE running before the wind under gaff-rigged main (35), topsail, genoa, and spinnaker, burgee and house flag flying from mainmast and mainsail respectively, man standing aft, six sailing vessels in the background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 5 and 107. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "Gracie Y454 Box 46 / 2 dates / on / plate {Aug. 10, 1893- inscribed / Aug. 4, 1892- typed".

GRACIE sloop
Y.1984.187.454

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection