The Highball Express, 1920

copy negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY
1920-07-20 (original negative)
overall: 4 x 5 in.; 10.16 x 12.7 cm

4 x 5 copy negative made from a print, from a 5 x 7 glass plate negative taken by Rosenfeld and Sons on July 29, 1920. Yachting party observing the International Cup Races of 1920 in an Aeromarine, or converted Curtiss 5FL. The seaplane is sitting in the water with the group turned toward the photographer in an informal pose. Aeromarine was founded by the yachtsman Ingalls Uppercu, and ran between New York and Key West in the winters of the early 1920s. It was known as the Highball Express because it also brought wealthy passengers to Cuba during prohibition. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Z.

1984.187.4263F.2

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