YANKEE, #H11, cutter, starboard beam view undersail, circa 1900

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Burton, James
USA, Long Island Sound
ca. 1900
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by James Burton in 1900 most likely on Long Island Sound off New York. Image of the gaff-rigged YANKEE undersail, showing a port beam view on a starboard tack. YANKEE, #H11, was an H Class vessel also known as a New York Yacht Club 70 footer. She was a 106' cutter designed by Nathanael G. Herreshoff and built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island in 1900. She was built for H. B. Duryea and Henry Payne Whitney. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "225-B Yankee". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

YANKEE sloop
B.1984.187.225

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer