A Swell, 1958

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - FILMSTRIPS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Block Island Sound
1958
35mm

35mm safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1958. Image of 70' Olin Stephens designed, Henry B. Nevins built 12 meter sloop COLUMBIA (built 1958 in City Island, N.Y.) on Block Island Sound. Visible in image: cropped starboard view of COLUMBIA running before the wind, hull is hidden from view by large swell of water, image of bottom of genoa and mainsail, crewmen on bow sending up genoa in stops while four other men tend to halyards and lines at mainmast. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 167. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "161416F-1-35 / AMERICA'S CUP 1958".


1984.187.161416.17

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection



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