The labels on the backs of the photos have a description and a negative number that they were printed from. The photographs are of drawings, prints, or paintings of old sailing ships. In the order pictured they are marked as follows:
(photograph #1)
Negative #6895
Margaret, Ship of Salem built 1800 at Salem, Mass.
Painting by Michele F. Corne
(photograph #2)
Negative #8745
Cleopatra's Barge, herm. brig (yacht)
built 1916 at Salem, Mass.
(photograph #3)
Negative #1447
Mount Vernon, Ship of Salem
M1975
(photograph #4)
Negative #11699
America, privateer, War of 1812
Painting by Edward J. Russell
(photograph #5)
Negative #1270
Recovery, Ship
Ship ''Recovery'' of Salem
From Original by
Wm. Ward, 1803, at E.??
(m.409)
(photograph #6)
Negative #18526
Fresco by Michele Felice Corne
Painted on wall of his Newport home about 1830
(photograph #7)
Negative #15736
Betsy, brig
M11408
(photograph #8)
Negative #805
America, privateer
watercolor by Michele F. Corne
M4258
(photograph #9)
Negative #15620
Mount Vernon and British Ships
M4170
(photograph #10)
Negative #12083
Page from log book, 1814
Diomede
(photograph #11)
Negative #359
Wharf below E. Lora's
site of Becket places 1816
Stickey photo July 1916
