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New York Yacht Club – Historic Print

New York Yacht Club, c1906. — historic photograph
New York Yacht Club, c1906.. Historic photograph from the New York City 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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The copyright line names A. Wittemann of Brooklyn as the photographer, and the subject tags point to Newport, Rhode Island, though the caption card is old and not fully verified. The New York Yacht Club, founded in Manhattan in 1844, spent its summers racing from Newport, and its clubhouse there became a social center for wealthy yachtsmen. The club also held the America's Cup for most of the period from 1857 to 1983, so a photograph of its premises from around 1906 records a time when its racing and social life were at their height.

Created / publishedc1906.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto copyrighted by A. Wittemann, Brooklyn, N.Y. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Yacht clubs; R.I.--Newport; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,142 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-140501

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