Fitting out, women painting name on transom, 1954

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Freeport
1954-05-16
safety film, Kodak
2 1/2 x 3 3/4 x 0 in.

2 1/2 x 3 3/4 Kodak safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons May 16, 1954 of a fitting out scene at Nassau Boat Basin, Freeport, Long Island, New York. View of two women working on placing the name of the vessel on the transom. Part of the name is there and looks to be, "H NRYKA". HENRYKA (ex INTERIM), was a 42' Chris-Craft cruiser built in 1952. A younger woman watches from the left as an older woman, on the right, smoothes out part of the name with a cloth. In the background to the left are other vessels and part of the name on one transom reads, "....PRAY". Stamped negative sleeve info.: "140775F / [Box] 5345". Typed: "5/16/54 / Fitting Out at Nassau Boat Basin / Freeport, LI, NY". Handwritten info. in ink; "PLACING NAME ON TRANSOM". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.140775F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection