DEFENDER, cutter underway 1895

copy print

8x10 copy print from 8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles in 1895. Image of 123' Herreshoff cutter DEFENDER (built 1895 in Bristol, RI) underway. Visible in image: starboard beam view of DEFENDER on running before the wind under gaff-rigged mainsail and topsail, balloon jib and spinnaker, auxiliary steam yacht visible between her sails. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 29 and 108. Embossed in lower right corner: “MORRIS ROSENFELD / N.Y.”, and stamped in blue: “COPYRIGHT / MORRIS ROSENFELD, N.Y.” and “MORRIS ROSENFELD & SONS / PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATORS / 116 NASSAU STREET, N.Y. 10038 / Phone 233-4970”.

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer