glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
USA: Massachusetts: Fairhaven [?]
After 1876
5.00 x 8.00 x 0

Glass negative; port broadside view of whaling bark GAY HEAD,[built 1877] on ways at unidentified shipyard, Fairhaven MA; GAY HEAD's sheathing being replaced; life ring hangs over stern; transom reads "GAYHEAD NEW BEDFORD; at left is round building with hexagonal roof; at right is brick depot of Fairhaven branch railroad [built 1859, demolished 1929]; see also 94.53.160; from the collection of Charles F. Sayle, Sr.

1994.53.159