Cresting Sea, schooner FLYING FISH, 1930
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSRosenfeld and Sons
1930 (original negative)
overall: 8 x 10 in.; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
8 x 10 gelatin silver print, made from a 5 x 7 Kodak safety negative taken by Rosenfeld and Sons near the Elizabeth Islands, MA, 1930. Port beam view of the schooner FLYING FISH in heavy seas. Vessel is seen running eastward toward the Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts. Built in 1925, this schooner was Cox & Stephens designed, and built by Bath Iron Works, in Maine. She measured 58 feet in length. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Z. Rosenfeld, page 71. Note: Image in book is a composite photograph with added clouds. This print has no clouds. Embossed in lower right corner: "MORRIS ROSENFELD / N.Y.". Stamped on back: "COPYRIGHTED, / MORRIS ROSENFELD, N.Y.". Handwritten on back: "Seawanaka Class schooner Flying Fish".
1984.187.41642F.3
Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection