S/S ETRURIA, mail and passenger steamship, ca. 1899

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Long Island Sound
Circa 1899
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles ca. 1899 of a long shot of the vessel S/S ETRURIA, port bow view, underway. ETRURIA was a 501' mail and passenger steam ship of the Cunard Line from 1884-1909. She was built by John Elder & Company of Govan Glasgow, Scotland in 1884 and was the last single-screw trans-Atlantic liner to break the speed record from Liverpool, England to New York in 6 days, 5hours, 31 minutes. Handwritten from neg. sleeve: "SS ETRURIA / Y113A / Steamship / Box 8". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

ETRURIA steamship
Y.1984.187.113A

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer