Schooner AMERICAN EAGLE
Date1890-1900
MediumPhotography; nitrate negatives
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 3 × 5 7/16in. (7.6 × 13.8cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineBequest from the Estate of Elizabeth Beattie
DescriptionBlack and white photographic negative, view of the stern of the schooner AMERICAN EAGLE with five unidentified people, four children and one man, on board. The passengers, possibly members of the Beattie family, are all dressed in bathing suits. [Left to Right] The man sits with his legs dangling over the stern and his feet on a rope, seated beside him are two young children, two older boys stand next to the seated childen.
Object number2023.17.29
CopyrightPublic Domain
NotesSubject Note: John Beattie's granite quarry, situated in Guilford on the Long Island Sound, was well-positioned to distribute granite via a fleet of schooners to locations in Connecticut and New York. Notably, granite from Beattie's quarry was used in the pedestal at the base of the Statue of Liberty.The quarry operated from 1869, when Scottish immigrant Beattie purchased 400 acres of land on Leetes Island, until about 1918, when Beattie's sons closed up shop 20 years after his death. At its height, the quarry employed 700 people, many of them immigrants from Scotland, Ireland, England, Finland, Sweden, and Italy.
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