[New York - Oyster Bay, Long Island Yacht Club: small motor launch with ten aboard] – Antique Print
![[New York - Oyster Bay, Long Island Yacht Club: small motor launch with ten aboard], [1905] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/db/db1eb6d608a9-L.webp)
(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 [New York - Oyster Bay, Long Island Yacht Club: small motor launch with ten aboard] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[New York - Oyster Bay, Long Island Yacht Club: small motor launch with ten aboard]
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The launch in this photograph, crowded with ten people, is set at the Long Island Yacht Club in Oyster Bay, a North Shore harbor town that drew well-to-do New Yorkers for summer sailing and social life in the early 1900s. Frances Benjamin Johnston, one of the most accomplished American photographers of her era, made the picture, which the original caption card dates to 1905. Gasoline-powered motor launches were a fairly new sight on American waterways then, so a boat loaded with a full party shows how quickly recreational motorboating was catching on among the leisure class.
| Created / published | [1905] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,154 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125213 |
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