I believe this six-master schooner to be "The Addie M. Lawrence", under sail with a pair of smaller sailing ships assembled as triple-framed unit. The Addie M. Lawrence was built in 1902, the second of seven six-master schooners built by the Percy & Small yard, (now home of the Maine Marine Museum), Bath, Maine. The ship was named for the daughter of Edward J. Lawrence, brother of the late Washington H. Lawrence, President of National Carbon. It was used to haul coal up the Southern coast to New England for the cotton mills. In 1917, while carrying munitions during W.W.I it was caught in a storm off the coast of France and sunk. Pictures with ships at sea are rare and sought after by collectors.