Lord Dunraven and Miss Wilson, 1895

copy negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1974
safety film
5 x 4 x 0 in.

4x5 copy negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on 1974. Image of Lord Dunraven originally taken on September 6, 1895. Image was probably taken in New York as the first race was September 7th off New York Harbor. Visible in image: an undentified man in a checkered suit to the left talking to Lord Dunraven, a British America's Cup challenger as they are walking in a crowd, to the right is a woman who has been identified as Miss Wilson. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: “190736“. Ink marks on original negative: "Dunraven / Miss Wilson / R85 232- SEP-6 1895 / no neg".

1984.187.190736F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection