BLUE WATER, 55'6" schooner, Bermuda Races, 1926

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1926
emulsion on glass
overall: 5 x 7 in.

5x7 glass negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1926 during the time of the Bermuda Races. Long shot of a view from left to right, of the express launch, PEP, an unidentified yawl, and the 55'6" auxiliary schooner, BLUE WATER, in the lead to the right. BLUE WATER, later named in 1935 as LA DAHAMA, was an auxiliary schooner built in 1924 by Rice Brothers Corporation of East Boothbay, Maine from designs by John G. Alden. Typed negative sleeve info.: "18642-F / Start / BERMUDA RACES 1926 / [Box] 1500". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.18642F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection