PURITAN, starboard view undersail, copy of, Nathanael L. Stebbins photographer

copy negative; black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Stebbins, Nathaniel Livermore
USA, NY, New York
1964
safety film
overall: 4 x 5 in.

4x5 copy negative made by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1965. Image of PURITAN undersail, starboard bow view on a mild port tack. PURITAN was a 94' cutter built in 1885 by George Lawley and Son of South Boston, Massachusetts from designs by Edward Burgess. She was the US America's Cup defender 1885 and a trial boat in 1886. In 1885 she defeated the British challenger GENESTA. She was the first Boston defender & the first of Burgess' three Cup boats. She popularized the "compromise sloop" design. She was owned by a syndicate of the Eastern yacht Club, including Gen. Charles J. Paine, Commodore Henry S. Hovey, Vice Commodore J. Malcolm Forbes, William F. Weld, William Gray, Jr., Augustus Hemenway, William. H. Forbes, F.L. Higgenson, John L. Gardner, and J. Montgomery Sears. She was bought by Forbes in 1886. This image of PURITAN was copied from a book and is the work of Nathaniel L. Stebbins (see AMERICAN AND ENGLISH YACHTING, Edward Burgess, 1887, plate V). The Stebbins Collection is currently owned by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, aka SPNEA, Garrison Gray Otis House, 141 Cambridge St., Boston, MA 02114-9990. Contact SPNEA to have this image reproduced from the original negative, SPNEA #531-NS. Negative sleeve info.: "176514F". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographer.

1984.187.176514F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographer