Sandbagger ANNIE under sail, circa 1885

albumen print

PHOTOGRAPHS
USA, NY, Long Island Sound
1885
paper
7-1/8 x 10-1/8 in.

Albumen print; oval; sandbagger, (possibly ANNIE, built in 1880) getting ready to jibe off Execution Rocks, Manhasset Bay; no boomkin visible; competitor is unidentified; written at far right in pencil is "Sandbagger sloops/ Larchmont YC/ off Execution" ; at bottom center is a red-bordered label "Sandbagger/ Sloops/ L.I. Sound/ c. 1885"; reverse is glue-stained, written in pencil "SANDBAGGERS/ LARCHMONT YC/ OFF EXECUTION".

UNIDENTIFIED sandbagger
1993.17.263