COTTON BLOSSOM III, 1941

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1941-05-24
safety film, Kodak #20
7 x 5 in.

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on May 24, 1941. Image of 69' Burgess & Morgan designed, Abeking & Rasmussen built 12 meter class sloop COTTON BLOSSOM III (built 1928 in Lemwerder, Germany) undersail. Visible in image: cropped port quarter view of "COTTON BLOSSOM III /STAMFORD / CONN." on starboard beam reach, heeled over, rail down under mainsail and jib, crew in cockpit looks aft at the camera, other sails and land in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection , image acquired in honor of Hudson H. Bubar. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 143. Stamped on original negative sleeve: "100875F" and typed: "copy neg...66699 / 5/24/41 / 12/1 COTTON BLOSSOM 111".

still on web 10-25
1984.187.100875F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, image acquired in honor of Hudson H. Bubar