Sweepstake Race runabout class start, 1924

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, MI, Detroit
August, 1924
emulsion on glass
overall: 5 x 7 in.; 12.7 x 17.78 cm

5 x 7 glass negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in August, 1924, at the Detroit Races sponsored by the Detroit Yacht Club, Detroit, Michigan. Overall view taken from a high point of runabout racers at the start of the 150-mile Sweepstake Race, starboard beam view, underway at a high speed. From foreground to background are: NINE-NINETY-NINE (T-99), BABY AMERICA TOO (T-36), CIGARETTE, JR. (T-55), and MISS DETROIT VII (T-37). Typed negative sleeve info.: "13453-F". Handwritten: "Aug. 1924 / Start of Sweepstakes / Detroit Races / Box 1163 / (printing instruction) leave out boat in foreground". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.13453F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection