FLORENCE, at rest on Long Island Sound off New York, 1903

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Burton, James
USA, NY, Long Island Sound
1903
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 glass negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles in 1903. Image of FLORENCE at rest, port beam view. FLORENCE, built over the winter of 1899 and officially listed as being built in Lloyds as 1900, was a 98' steam yacht, schooner rigged, designed by Nat G. Herreshoff and built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island. FLORENCE was renamed as FLORETTE in 1905 while still owned by her original owner Alphonse H. Alker who owned her until 1912. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "Florence / No. 268". Handwritten on emulsion margin edge: "825 / 268 / Florence / 1584". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer.

FLORENCE steam yacht
B.1984.187.268

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer