FREELANCE, underway, 1896

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Long Island Sound
1896-06-11
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles June 11, 1896 most probably on Long Island Sound. Image of FREELANCE underway, port beam view with a black hull. In the background are two other yachts with white hulls. FREELANCE was a 137' steel screw steam schooner designed by A. Cary Smith and built by the Crescent Shipyard of Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1895. Her owner from ca. 1896 to 1919 was F. Augustus Schermerhorn of New York, New York. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "Freelance / Y119 / Box". Typed on small piece of paper caption surface edge: "588 / Freelance / June 11, 1896". Handwritten on emulsion side of neg. along edge: "copyright 96 / 588 / Freelance". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

FREELANCE steam yacht
Y.1984.187.119

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer