COLUMBIA, 131' cutter, ca. 1901

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Burton, James
USA, NY, New York Bay
Circa 1901
emulsion on glass
10 x 8 x 0 in.

10 x 8 glass plate negative photographed originally by James Burton. Image later became a part of the Rosenfeld and Sons Collection. View of the 131' American's Cup defender, COLUMBIA, ca. 1901, probably taken in New York Bay where the International Cup Races (later called the America's Cup) were held that year. View of COLUMBIA, gaff-rigged, undersail, port bow view, reaching, on a mild starboard tack. In the distance in the background is another large cutter, bow on view. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "632B / Columbia." Handwritten on negative edge: "Copyright 1903." Videodisc address: 3-29127.

B.1984.187.632

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer