OWANECO, Naphtha launch, underway, 1894

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
June 28, 1894
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles June 28, 1894. Image of OWANECO underway, port bow view. OWANECO was a Naphtha powered launch with a windowed or open cabin house built ca. 1894. Image photographed in 1894 has a square flag (owners?) on the cabin with a "Y" on it and at the bow (yacht club flag?) a flag with a fishtail and an "O" in the center and a star upper left side. Negative sleeve info.: "Owaneco / G7 / Y228 / Box 23". Info. from glass plate margin: "Owaneco / June 28 '94" and adhered typed notation glued to right margin: "366 Owaneco, June, 1894". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

OWANECO steam yacht
Y.1984.187.228

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer