Vintage Glass Slides Discovered!

 An old friend who has been volunteering at the Hyde Park Historical Society let me know about several boxes of old glass slides of Ice Boats that were discovered.  A very cool find!  Many of the images are also found in the archives of the FDR museum & Library nearby in Hyde Park.  Still, access to some new images dating from 1880s to early 1900s is quite exciting. Plans are underway to use a proper scan tool to digitize these images, so that the 60+ slides images can be seen on-line.  These are some pictures taken with my phone of the glass slides. 

  E. Harrison Sanford's Avalanche, here, sloop-rigged;  circa 1888. 

 Irving Grinnell, aboard his Centennial yacht Whiff. 

Archibald Rogers' speedy yacht Ariel, 1893.  She sails today out of Orange Lake. 

Line up at the start of a race at Rogers Boat House, Hyde Park. 

Stepping the mast on Jack Frost (?)

Crew of the Icicle, John A. Roosevelt's champion yacht. Willie Smith (l); Robert Gibson (c); Thomas Scott (r);    Willie Smith often skippered Icicle in races, as well as being at the helm of Vixen, or Ellen Roosevelt's Flight in club races.  His yacht Greyhound, was on the ice this winter in Athens (2022).

Ice Yacht Scud, from the Red Bank Ice Boat & Yacht Club, capsized during the 1902 race for the Ice Yacht Challenge Pennant of America. 

Here's a view of what these glass plates look like and their size. 

 Excited to make accessible all the images from these glass slides.  Stay tuned!