Butler Whiting, airplane wing powered boat, 1923

black-and-white photograph; glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Block Island
1923-07-15
emulsion on glass
overall: 5 x 7 in.

5x7 glass negative photographed by Morris Rosenfeld, 1923. Starboard beam view of a Star Class Boat (POLARIS II, ex VENUS) experimentally rigged with an airplane wing. The wing is verticle. Three men are in the cockpit seated starboard. This image is in the September 1923 issue of The Rudder, p. 30. Typed on original negative sleeve: "10231-F" and written: "7/15/23 / Butler Whiting / experimenting with aeroplane [sic] wing / on boat / SV / Box 938". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Videodisc and frame number: 3-43604. DUP 1

1984.187.10231F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection