fishing schooners GERTRUDE L. THEBAUD and BLUENOSE under sail, port bows, starboard tacks, International Fishermen's Race, Gloucester, 1938

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, MA, Gloucester
1938-10
safety film, AGFA #4
overall: 7 x 5 in.

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1938. Image of 134.6' Frank C. Paine designed, Arthur D. Story built Gloucester fishing schooner GERTRUDE L. THEBAUD (built 1930 in Essex, Mass.) and 143' William J. Roue designed, G.A. Rhuland built fishing schooner BLUENOSE (built 1921 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) at the 1938 International Fishermen's Race. Visible in image: port beam view of the GERTRUDE L. THEBAUD to the left, leading BLUENOSE, behind on the right, on starboard close reach with gaff-rigged mainsails, maintopsails, foresails, fisherman's staysails, staysails, and jibs, swallowtail burgees on mainmasts, GERTRUDE L. THEBAUD carries an extra foretopsail and flying jib and flies an American Yacht Ensign on her mainsail, land in background, large amount of water and sky in picture, schooners very small. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 44. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

GERTRUDE L. THEBAUD schooner, fisherman; BLUENOSE schooner, fisherman
1984.187.90366F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection