ANNA LOUISE, beam view, 1946

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2 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. black and white photograph made in 1946 or after. Image shows a starboard profile of the yawl ANNA LOUISE. ANNA LOUISA was originally named SPARTAN, sail #NY6 and then #NY56, one of nine New York Yacht Club 50' Class sloops built by Herreshoff Mfg. of Bristol, Rhode Island to the 1913 Herreshoff design specifications for New York Yacht Club 50' class boat with an L.O.A. of 72'. Renamed ANNA LOUISE and rigged as yawl in 1946 and her owner was John McGrath of Mamaroneck, New York. Handwritten on the verso below "Anna Louise", lower left, "Sunday, April 14th". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Roderick Stephens Collection.

Mystic Seaport, Roderick Stephens Collection