SCAROON, RELEASE, and REVELATION, cruisers, start of power boat race, Bayside to Block Island Race, 1929

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - NITRATE NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld, Morris
USA, RI
1929-07
nitrate negative
overall: 5 x 7 in.

5x7 nitrate negative photographed by Morris Rosenfeld in July 1929 at the time of the Bayside to Block Island Race showing a port view of the cruisers SCAROON, #19; RELEASE, #7; and REVELATION underway at the start of a race. Typed on the original negative sleeve: "34480-F" and written: "Start Power / BI Race / Box 2488 / R [possibly indicating the image was submitted to The Rudder magazine]". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.34480F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection