GRETCHEN, underway, 1895

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Long Island Sound
1895-08-02
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles August 2, 1895 on Long Island Sound. Image of the steam yacht GRETCHEN at rest, port bow/beam view. GRETCHEN was an 81' screw steam yacht, schooner rigged, built and designed in 1891 by C.D. Miller of Poughkeepsie, New York. She was lengthened in 1901 to 106'. Her owner in 1895 was the Honorable John E. Reyburn, Mayor of Philadelphia in the 1880's, who owned her from 1892 to 1914. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "Gretchen / Y127 / Box 13". Typed on small paper strip adhered to the surface in the margin area: "321 / August 2, 1895". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

GRETCHEN steam yacht
Y.1984.187.127

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer