STORMY, Herreshoff Fish Class sloop, 1954

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York, Bronx, City Island
1954-07-03
safety film, Kodak #144
overall: 5 x 4 in.

5x4 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons, July 3, 1954 off of City Island, New York of young people sailing on board STORMY, starboard bow view on a mild port tack. View of (left to right): Charles W. Rodstrom, Jr. at the tiller, Adelaide Rosenfeld (Bialek), daughter of David Rosenfeld, and David Rosenfeld, son of David Rosenfeld (and also Stanley's brother) in the cockpit, and Margaret Rodstrom, lying on the bow. STORMY was a Herreshoff designed Fish Class boat built in 1954 and owned in 1954 by Charles W. Rodstrom, Sr. and captained by Charley Rodstrom, Jr. a neighbor of the Rosenfeld children on City Island, New York. Stamped info.: "141828F / JUL 3 1954 / [Box] 5363". Handwritten in negative sleeve: "STORMY / Herreshoff Fish Class / Charley Rodstrom". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.141831F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection