VALKYRIE II, port quarter view undersail, circa 1895

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
Circa 1895
overall: 10 x 8 in.; 25.4 x 20.32 cm

8 x 10 glass plate negative taken by Charles Edwin Bolles circa 1895. Port quarter view of the cutter VALKYRIE II under sail. VALKYRIE II was a British America's Cup challenger in 1893. She was designed by George L. Watson and made by D. & W. Henderson & Co. in Glasgow, Scotland 1893. She was beaten in 3 straight races by VIGILANT, and sunk in 1894 in the River Clyde by the British racer SATANITA. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "Valkyrie III [sic] yacht pg 12 / Sloop".

Y.1984.187.617A

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer