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1885-08-03
GUSN-276826
Priscilla was an iron centerboard sloop designed by A. Cary Smith and built by Harlan & Hollingsworth in 1885 as an unsuccessful defender for that year's America's Cup races. LOA 96-1ft. LWL 85ft.
"Mr. N. L. Stebbins, the marine photographer, succeeded in getting a large number of views of the Puritan, Priscilla and other yachts in the race for the Goelet cups Monday [1885-08-03]." (Source: Anon. "Yachting Spray." Boston Globe, August 9, 1885, p. 6.)
Goelet Cup, Newport
See also: Henry Peabody R.A.Y. #6, p. 6"Mr. N. L. Stebbins, the marine photographer, succeeded in getting a large number of views of the Puritan, Priscilla and other yachts in the race for the Goelet cups Monday [1885-08-03]." (Source: Anon. "Yachting Spray." Boston Globe, August 9, 1885, p. 6
yachts
sloops (sailing vessels)
sailing
photographs
Stebbins negative 571
1 photograph
PC047
Nathaniel L. Stebbins photographic collection
PC047.02.0280.00571
Wilmington (New Castle county, Delaware)
Stebbins, N. L. (Nathaniel Livermore), 1847-1922 (Photographer)
photographs
Harlan and Hollingsworth Company
Goelet Cup, 1885
Item
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