Stebbins, N.L. Steamers, Schooners, Cutters & Sloops: Marine Photographs of N.L. Stebbins Taken 1884 to 1907.

Houghton Mifflin, 1974. First edition, hardcover in cloth with very good price-clipped, protected dust jacket, ex-library with usual evidence, rear flyleaf trimmed, spine label.  126 pages. One page with a crease. Nathaniel L. Stebbins was a professional Boston photographer who specialized in marine subjects after beginning his business in 1884.  The black-and-white photographs in this book, one to a page, are from the large archives of his gelatin glass plate negatives at the Society for New England Antiquities. Each photograph is accompanied by notes by W.H. Bunting on the facing page.  Bunting also provides an informative biographical essay about Stebbins and the history of the collection after his death in 1922.  Vessels depicted in this book include America’s Cup yachts Columbia, Reliance, and Galatea.  Other vessels include Battleship Missouri, royal tender Elfin, armored ram Katahdin, coasting schooner Lavinia Campbell, schooner yacht Atalanta, sloop Hiawatha, six-masted coal schooner Mertie B. Crowley, fishing schooner Ellen C. Burke, the infamous steamer General Slocum, excursion steamer Taurus, and many others.