GRETCHEN, dressed, 1893

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
Lond Island Sound
April 27, 1893
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles April 27, 1893 on Long Island Sound. Image of the steam yacht GRETCHEN, fully dressed, at rest, port beam view. GRETCHEN was an 81' screw steam yacht, schooner rigged, built and designed in 1891 by C.D. Miller of Poughkeepsie, New York. Her owner in 1893 was the Honorable John E. Reyburn, Mayor of Philadelphia in the 1880's, who owned her from 1892 to 1914. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "Gretchen / Y126 / Box". Typed on small paper strip adhered to the surface in the margin area: "320 / April 27, 1893". Videodisc and frame number: 3-27270. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.


GRETCHEN steam yacht
Y.1984.187.126

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer