RANGER and Lumber Schooner, 1937

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, CT, New London
1937
Kodak safety film
7 x 5 in.

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1937. Image of 135' Olin Stephens designed, Bath Iron Works built J class sloop RANGER (built 1937 in Bath, Me.) and 202' Atlantic Coast Company four-masted schooner HERBERT L. RAWDING (built 1919 in Stockton Springs, Me.) off New London, Conn. Visible in image: port beam view of RANGER running before the wind under a marconi-rigged mainsail and spinnaker, passing the starboard quarter of the HERBERT L. RAWDING anchored with its main, mizzen, and spanker sails raised, steamships and land in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection , image acquired in honor of Franz Schneider. Stamped on original negative sleeve: "83262F / 4385" and handwritten: "Ranger & / coastal schooner / H.L. Rawding / NYYC Cruise".

HERBERT L. RAWDING schooner, lumber
1984.187.83262F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, image acquired in honor of Franz Schneider