Photo Record

Images

1 of 1977

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Metadata

Object ID

B_2_019

Title

[Horse-Drawn Boat "Sapolio"]

Collection

Photo Archives

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Date

c. 1899

Year Range from

1899

Year Range to

1899

Description

A man drives a horse-drawn boat by the name of "Sapolio" down Nassau Street, in front of the Nassau Hotel (the old Nassau Inn), while people watch from the sidewalk.

The boat's designer, William Andrews, sailed across the Atlantic in the Sapolio in 1892, making it the first folding boat to cross an ocean. Andrews held the record for the smallest boat ever to cross the Atlantic until 1965. This photograph shows the Sapolio c. 1899.

Place

Princeton, NJ

Print size

5" x 8"

Subjects

Boats
Horses
Wagons
Carriage drivers
Carriages & coaches
People
Bicycles & tricycles
Streets
Hotels
Inns
Sapolio (Sailboat)

People

Andrews, William Albert, 1843-

Search Terms

Nassau Street
Nassau Inn

Notes

In pencil on back of photo:
865 R3344 (4 ¼ x 6 ½)
Horse Drawn Boat "Sapolio"
Smallest to cross Atlantic Ocean
(on or about 1899)

Provenance

Print of glass plate negative in HSP collection. Primarily from local photography studios Kopp and Silvester. K_4_002 is another print of the same image.