Queen Victoria congratulates the owner's of AMERICA after the vessel won the 100 Guinea Cup in 1851 off the Isle of Wight, England, copy of drawing

black-and-white filmstrip (35mm) only

PHOTOGRAPHS - FILMSTRIPS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1974
35mm Kodak Plus X Pan Film
overall: 1 x 1 1/2 in.

35mm film copied by Rosenfeld and Sons from a book in 1974. Image is a copy of a drawing of the scene of Queen Victoria with her retinue surrounding her as she congratulates the owner's of AMERICA on deck after the vessel won the 100 Guinea Cup in 1851 off the Isle of Wight, England, later known as the first America's Cup Race. The image was copied at the New York Historical Society from a book there titled, "THE LAWSON HISTORY OF THE AMERICA'S, by Winfield M. Thompson and Thomas W. Lawson, Boston, Mass. copyright 1920. Neg. sleeve info.: none. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.190721.10CN

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection