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Valkyrie [II] – Historic Print

Valkyrie [II], [1893?] — historic photograph
Valkyrie [II], [1893?]. 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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Valkyrie II was a British racing yacht designed by George Lennox Watson and launched in 1893 for the Earl of Dunraven's challenge for the America's Cup. The notes on this glass negative tentatively link it to those races, based on the style of the title and numbering. That season's Cup contests drew large crowds and heavy newspaper coverage, and Valkyrie II lost to the American defender Columbia. Views of such yachts show the tall sail plans and long, heavy hulls that defined late nineteenth-century cup racing.

Created / published[1893?]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution based on style of title and numbering. Possibly America's Cup races. 386" on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71282

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