IDLER, motor yacht at Yale-Harvard Race, 1924

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, CT, Thames River
1924-06-20
emulsion on glass
5 x 7 in.

5x7 glass plate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1924. Image of 52' Gas Eng. & Power & Seabury Co. motor cruiser IDLER (built 1918) at Yale-Harvard Race. Visible in image: port bow view of IDLER underway dressed with flags, with the Indian Harbor burgee - white field with red diamond extending from tip of triangle to pole- on bow, unidentified burgee on mainmast, and American Yacht Ensign flying from transom, balloons tied to boat, "H239" on bow, party of people under canopy, town in background. Typed on original negative sleeve: "12319-F" and handwritten: "Idler / Yale-Harvard Race 1924 / George M Brown / Greenwich, Conn / Consolidated / Box 1083". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.12319F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection