ZIO and NIGHTWIND, 1939

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, Long Island Sound
1939
safety film, Kodak
overall: 5 x 4 in

4x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1939. Image of 69' Burgess & Morgan designed, Abeking & Rasmussen built 12 meter class cutter ZIO and sloop NIGHTWIND (built 1928 in Lemwerder, Germany) cruising on Long Island Sound at 1939 New York Yacht Club Cruise. Visible in image: cropped starboard beam view of NIGHTWIND (12/1) and ZIO to her port side running before the wind under marconi-rigged mainsails and spinnakers creating large bow waves. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 134. Handwritten on negative sleeve: “93592F / Zio and NightWind / NYYC Cruise 1939”.

1984.187.93592F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection