ELENA, ZODIAC, ATLANTIC, Spanish Ocean Race, 1928

5x7

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld, Morris
1928-07-07
safety film, Kodak #8
5 x 7 in.

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on July 7,1928 at the start of the Spanish Ocean Race. Image is a long shot of some of the vessels in the race. From left to right, in the center is ELENA, #17, a 1911 gaff-rigged schooner, 136'6", built and designed by Herreshoff of Bristol, Rhode Island. The next schooner is ZODIAC, a 1924 William H. Hand, Jr. design built by Hodgdon Brothers of East Boothbay, Maine at 126'10" in 1926. To the far right in the background is the 3-masted schooner ATLANTIC, built in 1903 at 185' and made of steel by the builder Townsend & Downey Shipbuilding Company of Shooters Island, New York from designs by Gardner & Cox. Typed negative sleeve info.: "29176-F". Handwritten: "7/7/28 / Start / Spanish Ocean Race / Box 2135". Notation of print possibly sent by Rosenfeld and Sons to the following: "Smith" and "Cormack". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

ZODIAC schooner; ATLANTIC schooner, 3-masted
1984.187.29176F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection