Class B start, Newport Bermuda Race, 1950

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Newport
1950
safety film, Kodak #25
4 x 5 x in.

4x5 in. Kodak safety photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons during the time of the Newport to Bermuda Class B race start in 1950. Image of many sailing vessels showing starboard beam views. From left to right sail numbers; #113 ketch, #128 yawl, #4 sloop, #79 yawl PAVANA (in foreground), #I/3 ketch, #135 yawl, #95 sloop, #147 cutter and partial view of #46 sloop. Image taken from on shore looking over the race course and spectators can be standing on the dock in the lower right section of the image. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "126951F / NEWPORT-BERMUDA 1950 / [Box] 5115." Handwritten in pencil: "CLASS B - START". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

PAVANA yawl, #79; UNIDENTIFIED sloop, gaff-rigged, #147
1984.187.126951F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection