RELIANCE, #G16, 1903

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Burton, James
USA, Long Island Sound
1903
emulsion on glass
overall: 10 x 8 in

10x8 glass negative photographed by James Burton in 1903 of the cutter RELIANCE, sail #G16, sailing on Long Island Sound with all sails out, starboard bow view on a port tack with deck visible. RELIANCE was 143' and built to be the America's Cup defender in 1903. She was the largest America's Cup vessel ever built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island from designs by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "B596 / Reliance / Box 37". Handwritten info. from negative margins: "596 / Reliance / 33 / 596". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer.

B.1984.187.596

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer