EASTERNER, #US18, approaching finish line, 1958

color slide

PHOTOGRAPHS - 35 MM SLIDES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Newport
September, 1958
color film, Kodachrome; cardboard mount
overall: 1 1/2 x 1 in.

35mm color slide photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons September of 1958 off Newport, Rhode Island. Image of EASTERNER, #US18, approaching a finish line, starboard stern quarter view, port tack, close hauled, stiff breeze, crew wearing orange protective gear. In the background is a race committee boat to the left and various spectator vessels. EASTERNER was a 65'6" twelve meter sloop built in 1958 by James E. Graves, Inc. of Marblehead, Mass. and designed by C. Raymond Hunt for the Easterner Syndicate with Chandler Hovey as the manager. She raced in the America's Cup trials of 1958 and 1962. Mount info. handwritten: "EASTERNER". Embossed: "SEP 1958". Processor's stamp: "MADE IN U.S.A. / (black) 28". Manufacturer's info.: "KODACHROME / TRANSPARENCY / PROCESSED BY KODAK". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

BOX.1984.187.1.4.13

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection