WANDER BIRD, schooner underway, 1930

safety negative

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in May 1930. Image of 85' Gustave Junge schooner WANDER BIRD (built 1883). Visible in image: port quarter silhouette view of schooner on starboard tack running free with gaff-rigged main and fore sails, staysail, jib, outer jib and flying jib raised, "WANDER BIRD / SAN FRANCISCO" on stern, trolling line or taking log reading off stern, Warwick M. Tompkins private burgee- blue rectangle with white bird flying towards star- on mainmast, American Yacht Ensign on mainsail, yacht club burgee- possibly of the Ocean Yacht Club to which Mr. Tompkins belonged- on foremast, sparkly water and land in background. Typed on original negative sleeve: "39177-F[A in pencil]" and handwritten: "Wander Bird / Box 2791". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection