Cresting Sea, schooner FLYING FISH, 1930

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
1930 (original negative)
matte finish
overall: 8 x 10 in.; 20.32 x 25.4 cm

8 x 10, matte finished, gelatin silver print. Photograph made from a 5 x 7 Kodak safety negative taken by Rosenfeld and Sons near the Elizabeth Islands, MA, 1930. Port beam view of the schooner FLYING FISH in heavy seas. Vessel is seen running eastward toward the Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts. Built in 1925, this schooner was Cox & Stephens designed, and built by Bath Iron Works, in Maine. She measured 58 feet in length. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Z. Rosenfeld, page 71. Note: Image in book is a composite photograph with added clouds. This print has no clouds. Stamped on back in oval: "MORRIS ROSENFELD / PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR / 116 NASSAU ST. N.Y. / Phone Beekman 3-4970". Handwritten on back: "SC 3 Flying Fish".


1984.187.41642F.6

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