schooner RITA-IRENE under sail breaching a wave, starboard bow, 1936

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Long Island; USA, NY, Long Island, Huntington
1936-10-12
safety film, Eastman Kodak #180
overall: 7 x 5 in.

7x5 Kodak safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on October 12, 1936. Image of 43.5' schooner RITA-IRENE (built 1923 in Tancook Island, N.S.) in Huntington Harbor, Long Island, NY. Visible in image: starboard beam view of schooner (hull number 6E207) on port close reach under gaff-rigged mainsail and club-footed staysail in a heavy sea with spray all around the vessel and the bow up and out of the water, beating out of harbor, trailing dighny, sails and land in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 104. Stamped on original negative sleeve: "77890F" and handwritten: "Reta Irene / 10/12/36".

1984.187.77890F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection