HOPE, Q Class, #3, Block Island Race, 1931

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Block Island
1931
safety film
overall: 6 x 8 in

6x8 in. safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1931 during the time of the Block Island Race. Image is of the vessel HOPE undersail, starboard beam view, deck visible. HOPE was a 50' Q Class sloop, #3, built in 1929 by Hodgdon Brothers of East Boothbay, Maine from designs by John Gale Alden. She was built to the rules of the New York Yacht Club for Q Class vessels. Typed neg. sleeve info.: "5312-S". Stamped: BLOCK ISLAND - 1931". Handwritten: "Q1[sic] Hope / Box 256". Notation of a copy of a print sent to: "Yachting" (magazine). CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.5312S

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection