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Sailing Ships - The Last Age of Sail in Photographs


Year: -
Language: English
Author: Collective
Genre: History
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 58
Description: 52 public-domain photographs of the last age of sail: Gustave Le Gray's brig on the water (1856); a wind-bound full-rigged ship off Lerwick, Shetland (ca. 1880); the barque County of Ayr off Adelaide (ca. 1878) and the German sail-training corvette SMS Arcona; sailing vessels crowding the wharves of Honolulu (ca. 1892-1910); the ship Balclutha in her working years - in San Francisco Bay before 1911, in the Alameda yard for her 1911 refit, at the Alaska Packers' berth, under full sail in Gabriel Moulin's photograph, and on her own decks with her crew standing on a load of lumber; the great Cape Horn barques Peking, Pamir and Passat under full sail, at anchor, under tow, and in group portraits of their crews at Wellington, Hamburg and Copenhagen; a full-rigged ship locking through Seattle's Lake Washington Ship Canal; the Half Moon replica on the Hudson (Bain News Service); Berenice Abbott's 1930s views aboard the barque Theoline at Manhattan's Pier 11 and Alvin Langdon Coburn's fog-bound rigging, 'Spiderwebs'; and John S. Johnston's Detroit Publishing glass negatives of the great schooner yachts - America, Atlantic, Colonia, Dagmar, Dauntless, Emerald, Fleetwing, Grayling, Iroquois, Mayflower, Quickstep, Sachem, Shamrock and Volunteer - plus Boston's Constellation (1893) and the Colonia-Amorita-Emerald and Idler-Hildegarde races.

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