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Photographs of Chelsea Boat Club and Point Breeze activities
Image Not Available for Photographs of Chelsea Boat Club and Point Breeze activities

Photographs of Chelsea Boat Club and Point Breeze activities

Date1880-1889
Mediumsilver and albumen prints on board
DimensionsLargest: (Height) 5 1/4 × (Width) 8 1/2in. (13.3 × 21.6cm) Smallest: (Height) 4 1/4 × Width 5 3/16in. (10.8 × 13.2cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineGift of Evelyn Chapman
Object number2016.85.2-.8
Description.2 close up view of five men, three seated and two standing, in front of a canvas tent.

.3 Photograph of ten men seated along the side of a canvas tent, some in chairs and some on the ground. Other tents can be seen in the background. A camera tripod and a portion of the photographer can be seen at the far left.

.4 Four beached canoes on the shore of a river with four men gathered around the third canoe from the front. Location is indicated as Point Breeze, Montville, looking west.

.5 Six children playing the water in front of a sizeable hill covered in scrub. All of them are wearing hats. Identified as Point Breeze, Montville.

.6 Two rowboats and a kayak in a small stream or river. A man and a woman sit on the bank atop a stone retaining wall. In the far left row boat two women are seated while a man sits on the stern. Three children are seated in the other row boat. A single woman is seated in the kayak. Identified as taken at Point Breeze, Montville.

.7 A kayak with a single woman aboard, and at least one row boat making their way down a rocky stream with a stone retaining wall behind them, above which sits a brick building. A second row boat may be behind the first. There are three children, a woman and a man in the first boat.

.8 A single person stands in the water up to his or her waist with both hands raised above the head. Trees are on the shore.
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