GIRALDA, underway, 1897

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Bolles, Charles Edwin
USA, Long Island Sound
1897
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles ca. 1897. Image of the steam yacht GIRALDA underway, starboard bow view. GIRALDA was a 129' steam yacht, schooner rigged, built in 1896 by James M. Bayles & Son of Port Jefferson, New York from designs by E.S. Renwick. Her first owner was believed to be Edward Sabine Renwick (1823 – 1912) who was a mechanical engineer, inventor and patent expert. Handwritten negative sleeve info.: "GIRALDA / Y122 / Steam Yacht / Bo...". Handwritten on emulsion side of neg. in margin: "Copyright '97 / GIRALDA / 799". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

GIRALDA steam yacht
Y.1984.187.122

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer