IMELDA, at the Yale-Harvard Races,1939

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, CT, New London
1939-06-23
safety film, Eastman Kodak #106; emulsion recovered
overall: 4 x 5 in.

4x5 soft negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on June 23, 1939 off New London on her way to the Yale-Harvard Races. Image of IMELDA underway, port beam view with the shoreline in the distance in the background. IMELDA was a 91' motorsailer, ketch rigged, built in 1939 by Hodgdon Brothers of East Boothbay, Maine from designs by William H. Hand, Jr. and her owner in 1939 was John J. Hagerty. She was renamed as MYSTIC in 1941. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "92498F / YALE HARVARD 1939". Handwritten: "Imelda". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

IMELDA motor sailer, 90' Hand
1984.187.92498F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection