AMERICA, schooner yacht, ca. 1901
safety copy negative
PHOTOGRAPHSRosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1939-05-12
Kodak safety, #93 copy neg.
8 x 10 x 0 in.
8x10 Kodak safety copy negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on May 12, 1939. Image of 108' George Steer designed, William H. Brown built schooner yacht AMERICA (built 1851 in East River, NY) underway. Visible in image: port bow view of AMERICA (C/10) on starboard close reach under gaff-rigged main and foresails and topsails, fisherman's staysail, forestaysail, jib and flying jib, vessel has very long bowsprit, burgee flying from mainsail. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 37 and 109. Typed on original negative sleeve: "54648 5/12/39 / 2536-14 / Copy of a photo of Schooner Yacht THE AMERICA, C-10".
1984.187.54648
Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection