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Wasp – Historic Reproduction

Wasp, 1896 July 25. — historic photograph
Wasp, 1896 July 25.. 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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The yacht *Wasp* was photographed on July 25, 1896, most likely at the Larchmont Yacht Club on Long Island Sound, though that attribution rests on the style of the title and numbering rather than a confirmed caption. Yacht racing drew crowds of well-to-do spectators to the Sound's shoreline clubs in the 1890s, when regattas were a major summer social event. The negative bears no Detroit Publishing Company number, so its place in that firm's holdings is also a stylistic judgment. It came to the collection as a 1949 gift to the State Historical Society of Colorado.

Created / published1896 July 25.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesAttribution based on style of title and numbering. Probably Larchmont Yacht Club. 475" and "Lt." on negative. No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 789 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71324

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