HESTER, cutter, undersail, port bow view, ca. 1901

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Aldridge, Arthur F.
Circa 1901
emulsion on glass
overall: 6 x 8 in.

6x8 glass negative photographed by Arthur F. Aldridge ca. 1901. Image of HESTER in the foreground, port bow view, sailing against the cutter, EELINE[sp?] in the distance. HESTER was a 90' cutter, also called a 60 Rater, built by C. Hansen and Sons of Cowes, England from designs by William Fife, Jr. in 1895. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "A20 / Hester / Box 2". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Arthur F. Aldridge photographer.

HESTER sloop; EELINE (?) sloop
A.1984.187.20

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Arthur F. Aldridge photographer