VALIANT, underway, 1895

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Long Island Sound
August 03, 1895
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles, August 3, 1895 probably on Long Island Sound. Image of the steam yacht, VALIANT, underway, port bow view with smoke billowing from the stack. VALIANT was a 332' steam brigantine yacht built in 1893 by Laird Brothers of Birkenhead, England and designed by St. Clair J. Byrne. She was owned by William Kissam Vanderbilt from 1893 to 1909. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "VALIANT / Y322 / Steam Yacht / Box 33 / 8 x 10 ?". Typed on paper strip glued to surface edge: "416 / 3". Handwritten on emulsion side of neg. margin: "Copyright / VALIANT / Aug. 3, 95". Videodisc address: 3-27487. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

VALIANT steam yacht, 332' St. Clair Byrne
Y.1984.187.322

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer