FILATONGA, auxiliary yawl at Block Island Race, 1924

black-and-white photograph; glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Block Island
1924-07-11
emulsion on glass
7 x 5 in.

5x7 glass negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on July 11, 1924. Image of the auxiliary yawl FILATONGA during the Block Island Race. Visible in image: starboard beam view of yawl, all sails set., in light wind. VIRANDA, also later known as FILATONGA and then VIRGINIAN, was a 46' yawl built in 1891 by George Lawley & Son Corporation from designs by George Lawley. Typed on original negative sleeve: "12676-F" "7/11/24 / Block Island Race / Sailing class / Filatonga / J. Linton Rigg/ Box 1106". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.12676F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection