ENTERPRISE, undersail, 1896

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Long Island Sound
August 07, 1896
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles August 7, 1896. Image of ENTERPRISE undersail, starboard beam view, black hull. ENTERPRISE was a 159' steam hermaphrodite brig, originally a British owned brigantine built in 1882 by Ramage & Ferguson of Leith, Scotland from designs by Alfred H. Brown. She was owned in 1896 by Alexander J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Rail Road system from 1899-1906 and who planned and began the building of Penn Station in New York City. Handwritten negative sleeve info.: "Enterprise / Y108 / Box 11". Handwritten on negative edge: "Copyright 96 / Enterprise / 710 / Aug 7". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

ENTERPRISE steam yacht
Y.1984.187.108

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer