MAGIC, schooner, hauled out, undated photo

copy negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Unidentified photographer; Bolles, Charles Edwin
1890-1907
safety film, Kodak #51
overall: 8 x 10 in

8x10 Kodak safety negative photographed by an unidentified photographer and believed to have been copied by Charles Edwin Bolles, a professional photographer active between the 1890's and 1907. Image of the 84' schooner, MAGIC (DS: Loper; BU: Carll, 1857), an 1870 America's Cup defender, hauled out on ways, port beam view, in a yard for fitting out. The name plate on the side reads, "MAGIC". In the background to the left is a small building up on a dock. Deterioration from the original print shows in this copy negative. Original print may have been a lantern slide. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "Y-865A / H. N. Rodenbaugh / Yacht "Magic" / Copy / June 1, 1929" and a notation, "To be [???] + with Bolles negatives." CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Charles Edwin Bolles Collection.

Y.1984.187.865A

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles Collection