SAGA, deckhouse interior, dining alcove, 1935

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1935-07-09
safety film, Kodak #164
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons July 9, 1935. Interior view of SAGA showing the deckhouse dining area to the left and a chair and glass cabinet to the right. Charles S. Payson had SAGA built in 1935 by the Wheeler Shipyard in Brooklyn at a cost of $88,000. SAGA was ordered with twin V-12 Packard engines, producing speeds in excess of 40 m.p.h. to beat Jock Whitney's 1928 APHRODITE on their runs to and from Manhattan from adjoining estates on Manhasset Bay, New York. Typed neg. sleeve info.: "50185 / 7/9/35 / SAGA 69' / Dining salon". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.50185

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection