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D.B.C.Y. [Detroit Boat Club yacht] regatta, 5 minutes after start – Antique Wall Art

D.B.C.Y. [Detroit Boat Club yacht] regatta, 5 minutes after start, [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
D.B.C.Y. [Detroit Boat Club yacht] regatta, 5 minutes after start, [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Detroit 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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A window into the past: D.B.C.Y. [Detroit Boat Club yacht] regatta, 5 minutes after start, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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D.B.C.Y. [Detroit Boat Club yacht] regatta, 5 minutes after start

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Five minutes into the race, the yachts of the Detroit Boat Club are still close together on the water, a moment when the start is settled but the finish is far off. The club, founded in 1859, sailed and raced on the Detroit River, and regattas like this one drew spectators to the waterfront during the early 1900s. The picture is an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative made by the Detroit Publishing Company, which documented the city and region around 1900 to 1910. The plate came to the Library of Congress through a 1949 gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 062733. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71395

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