gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
1934
overall: 10 x 8 in.; 25.4 x 20.32 cm

8 x 10 gelatin silver print taken by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1934. Port beam view of the J class cutter RAINBOW underway. Vessel's deck and crew are visible. RAINBOW (J5) was the last America's Cup defender built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. She was designed by Starling Burgess and built in 1934. In 1936 she was revised at Bath Iron Works, and her sail number changed from J5 to J4. Published in A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, page 81. Handwritten on back: "RAINBOW".


1984.187.67781F.11

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection