Commercial fishing vessel with tall midships pulpit, dockside, Block Island, 1929

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - NITRATE NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Block Island
1929-07-13
nitrate negative
overall: 7 x 5 in.

7x5 nitrate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on July 13, 1929, at the time of the Bayside to Block Island Race showing a deck view taken from a dock of an unidentified commercial fishing vessel with a tall midships pulpit with wheel. Other vessels and a shoreline are visible in the distance. Typed on the original negative sleeve: "34470-F" and written: "7/13/29 / Scene / Block Island / fishing boat pulpit / Box 2488 / R [possibly indicating the image was submitted to The Rudder magazine]". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

UNIDENTIFIED fishing vessel
1984.187.34470F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection