Cresting Sea, schooner FLYING FISH, 1930

composite negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1946-01-08
overall: 5 x 7 in.; 12.7 x 17.78 cm

5 x 7 Kodak safety negative taken by Rosenfeld and Sons near the Elizabeth Islands, MA, 1930. Port beam view of the schooner FLYING FISH in heavy seas. Vessel is seen running eastward toward the Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts. Built in 1925, this schooner was Cox & Stephens designed, and built by Bath Iron Works, in Maine. She measured 58 feet in length. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Z. Rosenfeld, page 71. NOTE: Image printed in the book is a composite photograph. This negative is taken of a composite photograph made from negative 1984.187.41642F and an unidentified cloud negative. Typed on negative sleeve: "original negative 41642F / 113127F 1/8/46 / copy of photo of SC-3 FLYING FLISH[sic] / 4881".

1984.187.113127F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection