gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSRosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1895-08-21
emulsion on printing paper
overall: 10 x 8 in.
10 x 8 print made from a Rosenfeld and Sons copy negative in 1974. Copy negative was made from an albumen print in the Collection which was photographed and made by an unknown photographer. Original print #1984.187.190735F.3. View of VALKYRIE III, August 21, 1895, hauled out and in a dry dock (probably Morse Dry Dock), bow view showing underbody, looking upward, with crew working on deck and on the hull. View of the drydock walls with spectators standing on top of them in the background. Handwritten in pencil on verso: "190735 / VALKYRIE - 1895". Stamped in blue ink bottom right.
1984.187.190735F.2
Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection