ARDEA, steam yacht, undated

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Burton, James
USA, NY, Long Island Sound
by or after 1901
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in

8x10 glass plate negative photographed by James Burton by or after 1901. Image of a large steam yacht named, ARDEA, dark hull and decks, one white stack, schooner rigged, underway slow, port beam view and the name plate over pilothouse is "ARDEA". ARDEA was a 94' steam yacht, schooner rigged, built in 1897 by T.S. Marvel & Company of Newburgh, New York from designs by Gardner & Cox as TIDE. She was renamed ARDEA in 1901 by her new owner Clarkson Cowl and home ported out of New York. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "B229 / Ardea / Box 13. Videodisc address: 3-28752. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer.

ARDEA steam yacht
B.1984.187.229

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer