8x10 glass negative photographed by James Burton in 1903. Deck view aboard the sloop RELIANCE, during a practice, looking from the starboard side to the port side of crewmen crouched down working on a large sail with officers directing. Boom in background is on a reach over the water. RELIANCE was a 143' cutter and the largest America's Cup defender ever built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island from designs by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff for the defense against the British SHAMROCK III in 1903. Handwritten on neg. sleeve: "B955 / RELIANCE". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer.