ELECTRA, underway, 1895

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Long Island Sound
May 30, 1895
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles May 30, 1895. Image of ELECTRA, underway, port bow view, white hull and on the port side, one of the three tenders hanging from the davits in the middle is a Naphtha launch. ELECTRA was a 174' schooner rigged steam yacht built in 1884 by Harland & Hollingsworth Company of Wilmington, Delaware from designs by Gustav Hillman. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "Electra / Y91 / Box 10". Handwritten on emulsion side margin edge: "copyright '95 / Electra". Typed on a slip of paper adhered to the margin on the surface: "308 / May 30, 1895". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

ELECTRA steam yacht
Y.1984.187.91

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer