| dc.creator | Houston Yacht Club
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2011-03-22T22:21:29Z
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| dc.date.available |
2011-03-22T22:21:29Z
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| dc.date.issued |
1908
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| dc.identifier.citation |
Houston Yacht Club. "The Russara serving as an escort for the Windom, 1908." (1908) Houston Yacht Club via Rice University: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/37353.
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| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/37353 |
| dc.description |
In the 1908 regatta, the Russara won two races: the 50- and 100-mile race, which earned the Rudder Cup. Jack O'Neil captained this ship to victory.
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| dc.description.abstract |
The Russara was one of many Houston Launch Club yachts which escorted the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Windom to the newly dredged turning basin of the Houston Ship Channel after the 1908 annual regatta.
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| dc.language.iso |
eng
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| dc.publisher |
Houston Yacht Club via Rice University
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| dc.rights |
This material is in the public domain and may be freely used.
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| dc.source |
Houston Yacht Club Archives, LaPorte, Texas
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| dc.subject.lcsh | Houston Yacht Club--History
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| dc.title |
The Russara serving as an escort for the Windom, 1908
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| dc.digitization.specifications |
Images were scanned as JPGs from originals by Houston Yacht Club for the 1998 publication “From Buffalo Bayou to Galveston Bay: The Centennial History of The Houston Yacht Club, 1897-1997” by HYC Fleet Historian Dora F. (Sam) Akkerman, 1998, Houston Yacht Club, publisher. The original materials were no longer accessible for making higher resolution scans for this project.
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| dc.digitization.specifications |
No master version
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| dc.contributor.funder |
Funding for the digitization of this material was provided by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission's "Train to Share: Interoperability Training for Cultural Heritage Institutions" grant and by Rice University.
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| dc.date.digital |
1998
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| dc.identifier.digital |
HYC00428
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| dc.publisher.original |
Published as part of “From Buffalo Bayou to Galveston Bay : the history of the Houston Yacht Club” by HYC Fleet Historian Dora F. (Sam) Akkerman, 2nd edition, 2008, Houston Yacht Club, publisher.
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| dc.type.genre |
photographs
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| dc.type.dcmi |
Image
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| dcterms.accessRights |
public domain
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