An America's Cup Treasury

This collection of photographs, reproduced as duotone images on high-quality art paper, presents a record of the great years of the America's Cup, between 1890 and 1937, when the extraordinarily graceful and powerful cutters of that era fought for yachting's most prestigious trophy. The British-born Edwin Levick became one of America's leading photographers. Only a year before his death he had received the blue ribbon of the Photographers Association of America for a series of marine studies. For years he was considered the official photographer of the New York Yacht Club and his depictions of the America's Cup, acquired by the Mariners' Museum, amount to some 43,000 images. His photographs not only describe the important moments of the racing but also the quieter moments behind the scenes - the white-suited crews loitering on deck, young women cutting enormous sails, poignant scenes of damaged craft, and the great industrial protagonists themselves, Sir Thomas Lipton, J. Pierpoint Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the skipper Charlie Barr and many others.