Chris-Craft 22' runabout, #61, Newport Races, 1929

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Newport
August 1929
safety film, Kodak #119
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 runabout, hull racing number #61, underway, starboard beam view, during the time of the Free-For-All Race for displacement boats, vessel registration bow number #4189-A. Shoreline in the distant background. Typed neg. sleeve info.: "35056-F". Stamped: "NEWPORT 1929". Handwritten: "Chriscraft #61 / Winner 1st heat not under 21' not over 125 HP Stock Runabouts / Winner 1st heat not under 25' not over 150 HP Stock Runabouts / Box 2520". Notation of possible order for prints by: "Chriscraft". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

UNIDENTIFIED runabout, 22' Chris Smith, #61
1984.187.35056F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection