AQUILO, underway, 1893

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Long Island Sound
September 07, 1893
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles September 7, 1893. Image is believed to be of the 104' steam yacht AQUILO underway, port beam view. AQUILO was a schooner-rigged steam yacht later renamed by 1905 as PRISCILLA. She was 104 ft. in length and was designed by George F. Lawley and built by Lawley & Son of South Boston, Massachusetts in 1893. Description of vessel in image: the name AQUILO appears on a nameplate on the side of the pilothouse. No fly bridge or foredeck canvas cover. Canvas cover only on afterdeck. Two lifeboats. Five port holes forward but none aft. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "AQUILLO[sic] / Y21 / Box 3". Typed on paper strip glued to edge: "274 / AQUILLO[sic] / September 7, 1893". Handwritten on emulsion side on top edge: "Sclml [?] AQUILLO". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles.

AQUILO steam yacht
Y.1984.187.21

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer