ALMY, underway, ca. 1893

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, NY, Long Island Sound
circa 1893
eemulsion on glass
overall: 10 x 8 in

10x8 in. glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles ca. 1893. Image of the 175' steam yacht, ALMY, built and designed Harlan & Hollingsworth Company of Wilmington, Delaware (1890). View of ALMY underway, port bow view, shoreline in distant background. She was owned by Frederic Gallatin from 1890 to 1898 and then purchased by U.S. Navy in 1898 and renamed U.S.S. EAGLE. After the end of World War I she was sold by the government in 1920. Handwritten neg. sleeve info: "ALMY / Y11 / Box 2". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

ALMY steam yacht
Y.1984.187.11

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer