Schooner yacht UNA under sail

photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
after 1847
paper
cloth backing 7-3/8 x 11-3/8 in.; photograph 7-3/8 x 9-5/16 in.

Photograph; starboard view of schooner yacht UNA on starboard tack off coast, steamer in far distance. Handwritten in black ink lower right "97". Mounted on cloth for ring album. Typed label on back "#97 UNA. This boat is probably the oldest Amnerican yacht/ she was built in and raced before America was built/ originally a sloop, in late years been schooner rig". (Rebuilt 1881, 71.9 x 17.8 x 7.2, designed and built by George Steers, Williamsburgh, NY, 1847.)

1974.577.59