HOTSY TOTSY III, #G4, underway, Gold Cup Races, 1940, photographic print

silver gelatin print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1940
emulsion on printing paper
overall: 0.00 x 0.00; image: 8.00 x 10.00

8x10 print made by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1940. Heavily cropped print enlarged to main image. Heavy cropping of the lower half of the neg. and the lower right side of the neg. Black wax pencil crop marks on surface from publication use. Handwritten caption adhered to verso: "HOTSY TOTSY III, owned by Sidney A. Allen and driven by a super-charged Wright V-8 engine." Red crayon note on verso :"Gold Cup Race 1940". Written on the verso in black ink: "September 1940 / Illus 4559" and in pencil: "H6607-5-3". Stamped in black ink: "AUG 19 1940" and stamped in blue ink: "Order No. [396 added in pencil] / MOTOR BOATING [logo with illegible, possibly EDITORIAL, superimposed] / Size [8/19 added in pencil] Sent.....Wanted [8/20 added in pencil]" and stamped at lower right in a blue oval: "MORRIS ROSENFELD / PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR / 116 NASSAU ST N.Y. / Phone Beekman 3-4970 / 98056F". Videodisc address for print: 1-26094. Surface cond.: Q2b cockling from adhered caption on verso; Q1-Q2 dent diagonally approx. 8" in length; Q3 pitting; Q4 fingerprint stain in corner.
Photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons at the Gold Cup Races held by the Indian Harbor Yacht Club of Greenwich, Connecticut August 17, 1940. Image is a long shot of the hydroplane HOTSY TOTSY III, #G4, underway with 2 crewmen in the cockpit, port beam view. HOTSY TOTSY III was built in 1936 and she was a 22"6" hydroplane and the winner of 1940 Gold Cup and her owner in 1940 was Sidney Allen. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "98056F / GOLD CUP 1940 / [BOX] 4629". Handwritten: "Hotsy Totsy III G4". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.98056F.1

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection