USS MELVILLE and WADSWORTH, 1917

black-and-white photograph; glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
emulsion on glass
overall: 5 x 7 in.; 12.7 x 17.78 cm

5 x 7 glass plate negative taken by Morris Rosenfeld, circa 1916. View of a destroyer tender and a destroyer in New York Harbor, 1917. Probably the destroyer tender MELVILLE (AD-2) and the destroyer WADSWORTH (DD-60) preparing to leave the US for Queenstown, Ireland. US flag flown from stern of the tender. Other naval vessels in background. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "Destroyer & Mother Ship".

UNIDENTIFIED torpedo boat; UNIDENTIFIED tender
1984.187.174F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection