ALMY, underway, 1893

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Long Island Sound
October 09, 1893
eemulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in

8x10 in. glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles on October 9, 1893 of the 175'5" steam yacht, ALMY, built in 1890 by Harlan & Hollingsworth Company of Wilmington, Delaware. 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. Image of ALMY underway, port bow view. There is a second unidentified steam yacht hidden behind ALMY whose stack can be seen in the background with smoke billowing out of it. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "ALMY / Y11B / Box 2". Small piece of paper caption glued on to glass edge surface side: "272 / ALMY / October 9, 1893". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

ALMY steam yacht, schooner rigged; UNIDENTIFIED steam yacht, schooner rigged
Y.1984.187.11B

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer