"SUNBEAM, 1939"

safety negative

4x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on September 17, 1939. Image of 60' John Alden designed, Reed-Cook Marine Construction Company built auxiliary semifisherman schooner SUNBEAM (built 1922 in Boothbay Harbor, Me.) undersail. Visible in image: port beam view of SUNBEAM on starboard broad reach under marconi-rigged mainsail, gaff-rigged foresail, club-footed staysail and jib, crew spread out on bowsprit and in cockpit, land in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 97 and 117. Handwritten on negative sleeve: “Sunbeam” and stamped: "94505F SEP 17 1939 / 5471".

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection