ELKHORN, cruising motor launch.

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"Islesboro - - 1926." [label on front pastedown.] Highly appealing photograph album documenting the Bertolet family's 1926 summer cruise off the Maine coast in the Elkhorn, an 81 foot motor yacht built by George S. Lawley & Sons in 1906, captained at the time by Whitney B. Lowe. Of particular interest are the many identified images of some superb sail and motor yachts of the era, including the Queen Mab, Vagrant, Vanitie, Mahapa II, Thelma, Mariette, Mary Rose, Advance, Resolute, and the Eda Mina IV, many of these designed and built by the celebrated naval architect Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (1848-1938), The typed label inside the front cover lists the fellow passengers and crew members accompanying W. M. Bertolet, and includes his wife Helen, sons Frederick and Jean, alongside members of the Dives and Ferneau families, and other friends.These crisply detailed and accomplished amateur photographs, many of which catch boats in full sail, offer a vivid snapshot of maritime adventures off the Maine coast during the 1920s. Wellington M. Bertolet (1881-1951) was a lawyer based in Reading, Pennsylvania, and City Solicitor; his father, Benneville F. Bertolet, was superintendent of the Mahanoy and Shamokin division of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. In the early years of the 20th century the Elkhorn was one of the most celebrated boats on the eastern seaboard. The Motor Boat magazine in 1907 mentioned it familiarly: "At Lawley's, South Boston, the birthplace of Elkhorn, and

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