Pictorial Supplement 12

Early Yachting Photographs of H. G. Peabody & W. B. Jackson

Among the more notcworthy pioneer American marine and yachting photographers were men like N. L. Stebbins, David Mason Little, Henry G. Peabody, and Willard B. Jackson. This Pictorial Supplement of AMERICAN NEPTUNE presents a random selection of yachting photographs by the latter two from their prints and negatives on file at the Peabody Museum of Salem. Parts I and II are devoted to the work of Henry G. Peabody; Parts III and IV to that of Willard B. Jackson.

Henry G. Peabody of Boston ranged the New England coast froth New York to Massachusetts capturing on glass-plate negatives the great yachts and the most animated yachting events of the last quarter of the nine- teenth century. During his career he shot thousands of views, a great many of which appeared periodically in numerous yachting publications. He, himself, during the years 1891 through 1893 published more than a hundred of his more spectacular photographs in a series entitled Representalive American Yachts. Part I of the following is devoted to schooners; Part II presents sloops and cutters.

Schooner America ca. 1890 when owned by General Benjamin F. Butler.
Designed 1851 by George Steers for Commodore John C. Stevens of
the New York Yacht Club. L.O.A. 108 feet