-----Original Message-----
From: jsjohnston@googlegroups.com [mailto:jsjohnston@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Sheldon Heckman
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:25 AM
To: jsjohnston@googlegroups.com
Subject: [jsjohnston] Re: Ten images of 1890s yacht clubs and the 1899
America's Cup races
358 Atalanta - This same photo is in an article entitled Atlantic Yacht
Club in the June 1899 issue of the Outing with this caption:
Atalanta, the flagship of Ex-commodore George Gould. - Now in the
Service of the U.S. Navy
It looks like the answer to your third question is Yes.
----- Original Message -----
From: "C. Baer" <cb...@vineyard.net>
To: "jsjohnston" <jsjohnston@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 4:35 PM
Subject: [jsjohnston] Ten images of 1890s yacht clubs and the 1899
America's Cup races
> Hi everyone -
> We've added ten new images from the J. S. Johnston yacht photography
> collection, including photos of the old Atlantic Yacht Club clubhouses
> (in Seagate, Coney Island as well as in Bay Ridge), the Riverside
> Yacht Club clubhouse, the Indian Harbor Yacht Club clubhouse, the
> Larchmont Yacht Club piazza, and the 1899 America's Cup winner
> "Columbia" racing Thomas Lipton's "Shamrock I" as well as Columbia's
> demasting.
> Does anyone know the story of exactly how Columbia was demasted in
> 1899?
> Do you know the story of the old Atlantic Yacht Club?
> Let us know! The new images can be seen at
> http://www.jsjohnston.org/browse10.html
> .
> Enjoy!
> Chris
> Chris Baer <ch...@jsjohnston.org>
> http://www.jsjohnston.org