ATHLON, 1884

copy negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1894 (original negative)
overall: 4 x 5 in.; 10.16 x 12.7 cm

4 x 5 copy negative made by Rosenfeld and Sons, from a print, made from an 8 x 10 glass plate negative taken by Charles Edwin Bolles on July 4, 1894. Port beam view of the compromise sloop ATHLON under sail, seen reaching. ATHLON was built in 1884, at a time when sloops were typically wide and shallow, while cutters were narrow and deep. ATHLON was a compromise, as her features were characteristic of both types. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Z. Rosenfeld, page 17.

Y.1984.187.373CN.1