INDEPENDENCE, #US28, and ENTERPRISE, #US27, aerial view, 1977

color slide

PHOTOGRAPHS - 35 MM SLIDES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Newport
August, 1977
safety film, Kodachrome; cardboard mount
overall: 1 1/2 x 1 in.

35mm color slide photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in August, 1977. Aerial view of INDEPENDENCE, 12 Meter Class #US28, and ENTERPRISE, 12 Meter Class #US27, circling each other on a starboard tack. INDEPENDENCE, #US28, sloop, was a 64' America's Cup contender in 1977 built by the Minneford Yacht Yard on City Island, New York from designs by Ted Hood who was also the sailmaker and skipper. ENTERPRISE, #US27, was a 67' sloop launched January, 1977, by Minneford Yacht Yard of City Island, New York, and was designed by Olin Stephens. ENTERPRISE raced in the 1977 and 1980 America's Cup trials and Lowell North was her skipper in 1977. Mount info.: stamped (red): "3 AUG 77N5", (blue): "PHOTO BY / STANLEY ROSENFELD / MORRIS ROSENFELD & SONS". Manufacturer's info. on verso: "Kodachrome / SLIDE / PROCESSED BY Kodak". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Stanley Z. Rosenfeld, photographer.

BOX.1984.187.16.20.5

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, Stanley Z. Rosenfeld photographer