Chris-Craft 26' runabout, #59, Newport Races, 1929

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Newport
1929-08
safety film, Kodak #31
overall: 5 x 7 in.

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in August of 1929 at Newport, Rhode Island. Image of a Chris-Craft 26' runabout built and designed by Chris Smith and Sons Boat Company of Algonac, Michigan for 1929, hull racing number #59, underway, starboard bow view, during the time of the Newport Races, vessel registration bow number #4191-A. Shoreline in the distant background with a few spectator vessels anchored to watch the races. Typed neg. sleeve info.: "35062-F". Stamped: "NEWPORT 1929". Handwritten: "Chriscraft #59 / Box 2520". Notation of possible print ordered by "Chriscraft". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.35062F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection