ALMY, steam yacht, ca. 1893

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, NY, Long Island Sound
circa 1893
eemulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles ca. 1893. The image is of the 175' steam yacht, ALMY, built in 1890 by Harlan & Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Delaware. The vessel is underway showing a starboard beam view. She was owned by Frederic Gallatin from 1890 to 1898 and then purchased by U.S. Navy in 1898 and renamed U.S.S. EAGLE. After the end of World War I she was sold by the government in 1920. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "ALMY / Y11A / steam yacht / Box 2". Small piece of adhered paper caption to gloss surface edge: "874 ALMY." Videodisc address: 3-27136. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

ALMY steam yacht, schooner rigged
Y.1984.187.11A

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer