VALIANT, underway, ca. 1895

black-and -white negative

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

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles, ca. 1895 probably on Long Island Sound. Image of the steam yacht, VALIANT, underway, port beam view with smoke billowing from the stack. VALIANT was a 332' steam brigantine yacht built in 1893 by Laird Brothers of Birkenhead, England and designed by St. Clair J. Byrne. She was owned by William Kissam Vanderbilt from 1893 to 1909. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "Valiant / Y 319 / Steam Yacht / Box 33." Handwritten in ink emulsion side of neg. margin: "copyright / Steam Yacht / Valiant". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer.

VALIANT steam yacht
Y.1984.187.319

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer