VANITIE, 1914

copy negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1914 (original negative)
overall: 10.00 x 8.00; image: 8.50 x 6.50

8 x 10 copy negative, made from a print. Original print made from a 6 x 8 glass plate negative, taken by Morris Rosenfeld. Port beam view of the cutter VANITIE seen under sail in 1914. The glass plate is Wratten and Wainwright panchromatic emulsion. The image was taken directly in to the sunlight, but processed to give the impression of a moonlit scene. VANITIE tried unsuccessfully to qualify as a defender in America's Cup 1914 and 1920. She was one of three cutters built for the 1914 defense of the America's Cup against SHAMROCK IV, the Lipton challenger. She was the largest, structurally strongest, and most powerful of the three, and was considered by many to be superior to Herreshoff's RESOLUTE, the eventual defender. In the 1920s under staysail schooner & marconi sloop rigs, she regularly defeated RESOLUTE in races between the two. She was designed by Burgess & Morgan and built by George Lawley & Son Corp. in South Boston, Massachusetts in 1914. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Z. Rosenfeld, page 37.

1984.187.1357SCN.1

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