AZTEC, 1892

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Long Island Sound
October 12, 1892
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles on October 12, 1892. AZTEC, built in 1890, was a 77' steam yacht, schooner rigged from designs by Charles L. Seabury. Image of vessel underway, port beam view, black hull, dressed. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "AZTEC / Y34 / Box 4". Handwritten on emulsion side on glass edge: "AZTEC / Oct. 12, 92 / Do not retouch this negative / Bolles." City in background. Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

AZTEC steam yacht
Y.1984.187.34

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer