fishing schooner GERTRUDE L. THEBAUD under sail, starboard bow, port tack, International Fishermen's Race, Gloucester, 1938

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, MA, Gloucester
1938-10
safety film, AGFA #8
overall: 5 x 7 in.

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1938. Image of 134.6' Frank C. Paine designed, Arthur D. Story built Gloucester fishing schooner GERTRUDE L. THEBAUD (built 1930 in Essex, Mass.) in Gloucester, Mass. Visible in image: starboard beam view of the GERTRUDE L. THEBAUD on port close-reach tack with gaff-rigged main and topsail, fore and topsail, fisherman's staysail, fore staysail, jib and flying jib, flying American Yacht Ensign from mainsail, dark swallowtail from mainmast, name carved into bow with decorative scrollwork. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 44. Stamped on original negative sleeve: "90383F" and handwritten: "F-16-8-10 / G.L. Thebaud / Gloucester 1938 / CUS / PG 44".

GERTRUDE L. THEBAUD schooner, fisherman
1984.187.90383F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection