FISEEN, steam yacht, 1893

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
August 12, 1893
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles on August 12, 1893 probably on Long Island Sound. Image of FISEEN, a steam yacht, underway, starboard bow view. This vessel had a plum bow, no masts, 1 funnel amidships, a pilothouse on deck forward with a trunk cabin aft of the smokestack and was approximately less than 100' LOA. Her hull was black and she had a black lifeboat hanging from davits on the starboard side. Handwritten in margin area of emulsion side: "Aug 12 '93 / Feiseen". Adhered small paper caption to surface edge: "315 Fiseen, " 12, 1893". Info. from neg. sleeve: "Fiseen Y-116 Box 8". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

FISEEN steam yacht
Y.1984.187.116

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer