Chris-Craft 26' runabout, #59, Newport, RI., 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 26' runabout built and designed by Chris Smith and Sons Boat Company of Algonac, Michigan for 1929, hull racing number #59, underway, port bow view, during the time of the Newport Races, vessel registration bow number #4191-A. Shoreline in the distant background with a few spectator vessels anchored to watch the races. Typed neg. sleeve info.: "35061-F". Stamped: "NEWPORT 1929". Handwritten: "Chriscraft #59 / Winner-stock Runabouts not under 25' not over-200HP / 1st heat / Box 2520". Notation of possible print ordered by "Chriscraft". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.35061F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection