About this Exhibit
Building the Lydonia II is an exhibit of nineteen images that traces the construction of the steam yacht Lydonia II from the laying of its keel to its first sea trial.
The Pusey and Jones Company maintained a photographic record for many of its shipbuilding and machine contracts from 1870 to 1955. This collection of photographs was acquired by the the Hagley Library in 1970. While the content varies, the shipbuilding images typically document important points in the construction process, e.g., laying of the keel; on the shipway; christening; launching; fitting out; and the sea trial. The Lydonia II series is the only set scanned in its entirety, but it is representative of other sequences in the Pusey and Jones Corporation Photograph Collection.
Approximately 800 of the over 6,700 images in the Pusey and Jones collection are available online at the Hagley Digital Archives.
For more information about this collection or for assistance with your research, please contact us at Ask Hagley or call 302-658-2400 ext 232.
CREDITS
Research, writing, and digitization:
Jamin Wells, Hagley Fellow, University of Delaware
Content development / Web design and layout:
Kevin Martin, Curator of Digital Collections, Hagley Museum and Library