ISTALENA, M Class, #10, 1930

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
July 1930
safety film, Kodak #152
overall: 5 x 7 in.; 12.7 x 17.78 cm

5x7 Kodak safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in July of 1930. Port quarter view of the M Class cutter ISTALENA undersail, heeled over on a starboard tack showing a full view of the deck and crew on a windy day. ISTALENA was an 87' racing sloop owned by George M. Pynchon until 1933. She was a Herreshoff design and was built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island in 1929. Stamped neg. sleeve: "40974F / [Box[ 2884. Handwritten: "Istalena M10 deck". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.40974F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection