Governor Baldwin of Connecticut, 1939
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSRosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1939-06-21
overall: 8 x 10 in.; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
8 x 10 gelatin silver print, taken by Rosenfeld and Sons as a 4 x 5 safety negative, on June 21, 1939. View of Governor Baldwin of Connecticut (left), seen posed an unidentified Governor (center), and an unidentified man. Governor Baldwin is seen holding a box of cigars from the Hotel Lexington, while posed in front of a Connecticut photographic mural, depicting scenes of tobacco fields, the Harvard Yale boat Races, and an oval overlay of the state Capital building. Raymond Earl Baldwin was a Republican Governor of Connecticut 1939-1941, and again 1943-1946. This photograph is part of a series of images taken for hire by the Lexington Hotel, currently the Radisson Lexington Hotel in the corner of 48th Street and Lexington Ave. It became well known for its Hawaiian Room, a night club offering native Hawaiian singers of the times. The series may be part of a 10 year celebration of the Hotel, which opened in 1929, or part of a promotion relating to the World's Fair. Stamped on back in oval: "MORRIS ROSENFELD / PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR / 116 NASSAU ST. N.Y. / Phone Beekman 3-4970".
1984.187.54784F.4
Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection