Our goal is to demonstrate, as the
literary critic Sven Birkerts says, "What happens in the
world ... is far
more unlikely and interesting than what a novelist can
invent."
The image above is from "Yachts by Herreshoff," a
catalogue
(circa 1935) of yachts built by the Herreshoff
Company in Bristol, Rhode Island. It is a
reproduction of a print made
from a drawing by R. F. Paterson, of the
'Columbia' in the America's Cup
race in 1899.
This site was produced
at Brown
University's Scholarly Technology
Group by Sara Grady, Alice Lovejoy, Claire
Iltis, and Liz
Rodwell