RAINBOW's aluminum mast, 1934

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Newport
1934-09-02
safety film, Eastman Kodak #13
overall: 7 x 5 in.

7x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons September 2, 1934 before the start of the America's Cup races on the 17th. View looking upward from the mast base on deck at the aluminum mast, the spreaders and partial view of the sails of RAINBOW, #J5. RAINBOW was a 126'7" ft. J Class boat design by Burgess & Donaldson, Inc. and built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island in 1934 and owned by the Harold Vanderbilt Syndicate. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "69367F". Typed: "9/2/34 / Mast of Rainbow". Handwritten: "Van", meaning for H. Vanderbilt. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.69367F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection