GRAY GOOSE III, on a trailer, Florida, 1940

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, FL
1940
safety film, Defender
overall: 7 x 5 in.

7x5 nitrate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in Florida in 1940. Event was the timing of GRAY GOOSE III's one mile run at Florida, March, 1940. Image of the hydroplane GRAY GOOSE III, #G-45, built and designed by Ventnor Boat Works in 1940, hauled out, on the bed of a trailer, port bow view. The trailer truck is on the wooden dock and there is a young man in a scouting uniform standing against a rail watching the proceedings and there is a tree in the foreground to the right. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "95604F / FLORIDA 1940 / [Box] 4589". Handwritten info.: "Gray Goose on Trailer." Notation of possible prints sent to: "Can"(George Cannon?). CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.95604F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection