Charles E. Courtney, sculling, copy negative made 1919

copy nitrate negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - NITRATE NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1919-10-20
nitrate negative
8 x 10 x 0 in.

8x10 nitrate negative copied by Rosenfeld and Sons, October 20, 1919. Image was photographed by an unidentified photographer. Subject of image positively identified as the professional sculler, Charles Edward Courtney in a single rowing scull. Handwritten note on neg. sleeve: "William Gardner / 1 Broadway." Original Box 758. THE LOG OF MYSTIC SEAPORT, Summer, 2005, 56/1, states in an article by Goran Buckhorn titled, "Charles Courtney and the Decline of Professional Sculling in America", page 4, that the image was used in, "Look's "Courtney, Master Oarsman-Champion Coach," dates the image to 1879...". This image shows the new innovation of the "sliding seat" in use.

UNNAMED scull
1984.187.9713

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection