VIGILANT, cutter and JUBILEE, sloop underway, 1893

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Bolles, Charles Edwin
1893-08-10
paper
8 x 10 x 0 in.

8x10 gelatin silver print from 8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles on August 10, 1893. Image of 126' Herreshoff cutter VIGILANT (built 1893 in Bristol, RI) and 104' John B. Paine designed, Lawley built sloop yacht JUBILEE (built 1893 in South Boston, MA) underway. Visible in image: port beam view of VIGILANT (97) and JUBILEE running before the wind under gaff-rigged mainsails and topsails, balloon jibs and spinnakers. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 24 and 108. Handwritten on back: "Y627 Vigilant + Jubilee".

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Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer