MIGRANT Headsails, 1934

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Long Island Sound
1934-10-02
safety film, Kodak Panchromatic film
7 x 5 in.

7x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on October 2, 1934. Closeup bow image of 223' Henry J. Gielow designed, George Lawley and Son built three-masted schooner yacht MIGRANT (built 1929 in Neponset, Mass.). Image is a cropped port bow view of the schooners headsails on a starboard close reach from the foremast forward. View includes shots of the gaff-rigged foresail and fore topsail, club-footed staysail, and inner, outer and flying jibs, three crewmen running out the footropes on the bowsprit, rest of crew is running forward on deck past the windlass, bow has carved decorations. Stamped on original negative sleeve: "69978F" and typed: "10/2/34 / MIGRANT". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 93.

1984.187.69978F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection