Count Mankowski on ANKLE DEEP, 1915

black-and-white photograph; glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1915-08-01
emulsion on glass
overall: 5 x 7 in.; 12.7 x 17.78 cm

5 x 7 glass plate negative taken by Morris Rosenfeld at the 1915 Gold Cup Race at Manhasset Bay, NY. Close, right center view of Count Casimir Mankowski sitting on the bow of his hydroplane ANKLE DEEP TOO. ANKLE DEEP TOO was built and designed by Chase, Tams, Lemoine & Crane in 1915. She hit a rock two weeks before the Gold Cup race 1915 and still had problems during the trials. Mankowski was a Polish count who married an American woman from New York. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "Count Mankowski".

1984.187.145F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection