black-and-white photograph; gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSRosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
emulsion on printing paper
overall: 10 x 8 in.; 25.4 x 20.32 cm
10x8 gelatin silver print made by Rosenfeld and Sons (date unknown), from an 8 x 10 glass plate negative taken by James Burton, September 3, 1903. Port beam view of the cutter RELIANCE under sail during the third race in the America's Cup Races. At least eighteen crew members are seen out on the bowsprit as the jib topsail is lowered. Image is cropped from an approximate 1 x 1 inch section of an 8 x 10 negative. Grain from close cropping apparent in print. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Z. Rosenfeld, page 33.
B.1984.187.940.3
Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, James Burton photographer