RELIANCE, wind and wing, 1903

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Burton, James
USA, NY, New York Bay
1903
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by James Burton in 1903. Image is a long shot of the vessel RELIANCE, undersail, wing and wing, port bow view with many crewmen onboard at various activities including several men on the bowsprit. The trail of smoke seen behind and to the left of the bow area is from a power vessel in back of RELIANCE. RELIANCE was the 143' U.S. America's Cup 1903 defender, the largest America's Cup cutter ever built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island from designs by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff. She defended the Cup against the British challenger Shamrock III in 1903. Handwritten negative sleeve info.: "Reliance / 592". Info. adhered on a small piece of paper on the negative surface in two margins: "87-B14449" and "W18836". Handwritten in ink in margin areas on the emulsion side: "Reliance / 592 / 40" and faintly in the lower right area is printed: "The Pictorial News Co. / N.Y.". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer.

B.1984.187.592

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer