RELIANCE, hauled out, 1903

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Burton, James
USA, NY
1903
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.; 20.32 x 25.4 cm

8 x 10 glass negative photographed by James Burton in New York Harbor, 1903. View of the cutter RELIANCE hauled out to dry and hull cleaned in a boat yard, in a cradle, port bow view with crew seen aboard. There are other smaller craft seen in the water whose spectators are watching the proceedings. RELIANCE was the Herreshoff designed America's Cup 1903 defender and the largest America's Cup boat ever built to that date and defended against Shamrock III in August, 1903. She was syndicate owned by H. Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, and others and managed by C. Oliver Iselin. Her captain was the well-known shipmaster Charles Barr and she had a crew of 64. RELIANCE was broken up after the 1903 race and scrapped. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "B-655 / Box 40 / Reliance". Handwritten info. from negative margin emulsion side: "Reliance / 655 / 655 /3". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer.

B.1984.187.655

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer