Start of a race off Newport

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Collection Type

Photography

Date

1888-08-18

GUSN

GUSN-277318

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Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection
Prints
Negative numbers 1904 - 1921
Start of a race off Newport
(current record)

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Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection
- Prints
  - Negative numbers 1904 - 1921
    - Orinda
    - Albatross
    - Gundred
    - Viking
    - Huron
    - Augusta - Steamer
    - Miranda
    - Mabel F. Swift
    - Indra
    - Sachem
    - Start off Newport (current record)

Description

Described in W. H. Bunting's "Steamers, Schooners, Cutters, and Sloops" (1974): "Big sloops and schooners of the New York and Eastern Yacht Clubs in a discouraging race. The white sloop, left of center, with the prominent spinnaker, looks to be the Burgess Cup defender Puritan; the dark schooner at the right is unmistakably the old schooner Dauntless. The big sloop far in the lead appears to be the Volunteer, Burgess' last defender, which had caught a lucky slant soon after the start" (pg. 73).

Details

Descriptive Terms

yachts
schooners
sloops (sailing vessels)
races (events)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

Stebbins negative 1921

Physical Descrption

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC047

Collection Name

Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection

Reference Code

PC047.02.0720.01921

Record Details

Originator

Stebbins, N. L. (Nathaniel Livermore), 1847-1922 (Photographer)

Material Type

photographs

Accruals Note

Publications Referencing This Collection

Bunting, Steamers, Schooners, Cutters & Sloops p. 73.

Description Level

Item

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