ERL KING, port beam view at rest, ca. 1906

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Burton, James
USA, Long Island Sound
ca. 1906
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by James Burton ca. 1906. Image of the rerigged steam schooner yacht ERL KING anchored, port beam view on Long Island Sound. ERL KING was a 200' steam yacht built in 1894, originally brigantine rigged, by Ramage & Ferguson, Ltd. of Leith, Scotland from designs by St. Clare J. Byrne. She was owned from 1900-1909 by A. Edward Tower. Handwritten negative sleeve info.: "No. 261". Handwritten on negative margin: "261 / 3216". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

ERLKING steam yacht
B.1984.187.261

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer