Cresting Sea, schooner FLYING FISH, 1930
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSRosenfeld and Sons
1930 (original negative)
fiber
overall: 8 x 10 in.; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
8 x 10 gelatin silver print, made from a 5 x 7 Kodak safety negative taken by Rosenfeld and Sons near the Elizabeth Islands, MA, 1930. Port beam view of the schooner FLYING FISH in heavy seas. Vessel is seen running eastward toward the Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts. Built in 1925, this schooner was Cox & Stephens designed, and built by Bath Iron Works, in Maine. She measured 58 feet in length. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Z. Rosenfeld, page 71. Note: Image in book is a composite photograph with added clouds. This print has no clouds. Stamped on back in rectangular box: "MORRIS ROSENFELD / PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR / 116 NASSAU ST. N.Y. / Phone Beekman 3-4970", and "COPYRIGHT / MORRIS ROSENFELD, N.Y.". Handwritten on back: "Flying Fish".
1984.187.41642F.5
Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection