ELMINA, schooner, #D3, 1901

black-and -white negative

8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles circa 1901. Image of 99' A. Carey Smith designed, Townsend and Downey built schooner yacht ELMINA (built 1901 in Shooters Island, NY). Visible in image: starboard bow view of ELMINA (D/3) running before the wind under gaff-rigged main and foresails and topsails, spinnaker and balloon jib, two crew members sit aft dangling their legs over the side, other schooners and land seen in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 3 and 107. Handwritten on negative sleeve: “Elmina Y833 / Box / 84 / Schooner”.

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer