Document No 1280: VIGILANT, #97, and JUBILEE, port beam view racing, America's Cup Trials, 1893

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AUTEUR : Charles E. Bolles

REF : 0

EDITION : 1893

DATE : 10 Aug 1893

COURSE : 0

DESCRIPTION SITE :

8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Charles Edwin Bolles on August 10, 1893. Image of 126' Herreshoff cutter VIGILANT (built 1893 in Bristol, RI) and 104' John B. Paine designed, Lawley built sloop yacht JUBILEE (built 1893 in South Boston, MA) racing each other for the right to defend the America's Cup challenge of VALKYRIE II. Visible in image: port beam view of VIGILANT, #97, in the foreground and JUBILEE behind and to the right, running before the wind under gaff-rigged mainsails and topsails, balloon jibs and spinnakers. Handwritten on negative sleeve: “Vigilant + Jubilee Y627 8/10/1893 Box 63 / Sloops”. Handwritten on neg. margin in pencil: "Aug 10 Vigilant". Caption adhered to glass on brown paper: "160 Vigilant and Jubilee, August 10, 1893". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Charles Edwin Bolles photographer. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 24 and 108.

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Public domain
BATEAUX : JUBILEE VIGILANT
LIENS VERS CE DOCUMENT
SITE LARG HAUT ADRESSE
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