QUEST, #CN1, International 8 Metre, 1930

safety negative; black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1930-08-11
safety film, Kodak #59
5 x 7 x 0 in.

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on August 11, 1930. Image of 48' William Fife III designed, Fairlie & Oakville Yacht Building Company built International 8 Metre class sloop QUEST (built 1929 in Oakville, Ontario, Canada) undersail. Visible in image: port beam view of QUEST (8/CN1) running before the wind under marconi-rigged mainsail and jib, crew is raising spinnaker, thunderclouds in sky, commuter cruisers and land in background. Handwritten on negative sleeve: “41863F / Quest 8/CN1 / 8/11/30 / 41863F”. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 68 and 113.

QUEST unidentified vessel type
1984.187.41863F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection