GARDENIA, cutter at Larchmont, 1908

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Burton, James
USA, NY, Larchmont
1908-06-20
paper
8 x 10 x 0 in.

8x10 gelatin silver print from 8x10 glass plate negative photographed by James Burton on June 20, 1908. Image of 60' William Gardner designed, B. Frank Wood built M class cutter GARDENIA (built 1906 in City Island, NY) at Larchmont. Visible in image: zoomed-in starboard bow view of GARDENIA (M/3) on port close reach under gaff-rigged mainsail and topsail, staysail and jib, a crewman on the bowsprit clips the flying jib onto the jibstay as his crewmate feeds the jib out to him, vessel heeled over, raildown. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 35 and 109. Handwritten on back: "Gardenia 94B".


B.1984.187.94.3

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer


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