DEFENDER's crew, portrait, 1899

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, NY, New York Bay
June 19, 1899
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glassplate negative photographed by Charles Bolles. Portrait of DEFENDER's crew posed amidships in 1899. DEFENDER's crew were all mariners from Deer Island, Maine. The image has three rows of yachtsmen standing, sitting, and sitting on deck. Written on negative sleeve upper left corner: "Group on Defender / Y 834B" and upper right corner: "Box 84". Videodisc image and frame number: 3-28069. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

DEFENDER cutter
Y.1984.187.834B

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer