FLOELLA II, screw launch, New Rochelle Yacht Club Motor Boat Races, 1912

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld, Morris
USA, NY, New Rochelle
1912
emulsion on glass
overall: 6 x 8 in.

6x8 glass negative photographed by Morris Rosenfeld during the time of the Motor Boat Races held by the New Rochelle Yacht Club off New Rochelle, New York, in 1912. Image shows a port beam view of the screw launch FLOELLA II (aka FLOELLA) underway with three people visible. FLOELLA II was built by or before 1912 and was approximately 35' in length. She was a wood screw launch with a trunk cabin. Written on the emulsion side of the negative: "Floella II". Typed on the original negative sleeve: "553-AS" and written: "M.B. / Floella / N. R. Y.C. Motor Boat races / 1912 / Plate 553A Box 44 [both partially obscured]". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.553AS

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection