Schooner yacht at anchor

albumen print

Albumen print; port view of schooner yacht at anchor in crowded harbor. Handwritten in pencil and pen at bottom "Drafting: OA 95.6" Beam 12.'6" WL. 87'6 CB. Josephine (phil.) Loper, owner 1865". New York Yacht Club schooner in background. On reverse, posed photograph of 5 men and 1 woman, (3 men seated, 2 standing, woman sitting on windowsill). Pale writing in pencil at top "The yacht "America"... built in 1851/ ... probably after she was captured in a ... runner ... the Civil War." Top corners of photograph cut off.