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Yacht Independence – Vintage Print

Yacht Independence, c1901. — historic photograph
Yacht Independence, c1901.. 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 1901-era view shows the racing yacht *Independence*, a large sailing vessel of the kind that drew crowds to the America's Cup contests off Newport, Rhode Island, though the record only notes the races as a possibility. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made many commercial views of American resorts, harbors, and events around the turn of the twentieth century, produced this image on an 8 by 10 inch glass plate negative. Its path to the Library of Congress began with a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado, and the same series also survives as a glass transparency.

Created / publishedc1901.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30644. Possibly America's Cup races. 418" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 021587. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan797 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-64643

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