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[America's Cup race, U.S.R.C. Gresham] – Historic Print

[America's Cup race, U.S.R.C. Gresham], [1901] — historic photograph
[America's Cup race, U.S.R.C. Gresham], [1901]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [America's Cup race, U.S.R.C. Gresham] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The subject here is the U.S. Revenue Cutter *Walter Q. Gresham*, a federal vessel that appears in this 1901 view of the America's Cup races, not a yacht. Government cutters were often assigned to regattas to watch the course and keep spectators and other craft out of the racing area. The 1901 series was a major event for American yachting, with the defender *Columbia* racing Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger *Shamrock II*. The image is a glass dry-plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for documenting American places and events in the early twentieth century.

Created / published[1901]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle and date from jacket. 516" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 032599. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsWalter Q. Gresham (Revenue cutter) America's Cup races. Government vessels--American. Regattas.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-66143

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