VIVA, displacement runabout, and MARY, a steam launch, underway, International Race, New York, 1911

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld, Morris
USA, NY, Huntington Bay
1911-09
emulsion on glass
overall: 6 x 8 in.

6x8 glass negative photographed by Morris Rosenfeld in September 1911 at the time of the International Trophy Races held in Huntington Bay, Long Island, New York. Image shows a starboard beam view of the hydroplane VIVA underway at low speed in the foreground with 3 people on board, and a port beam view of MARY, a schooner-rigged steam launch, in the near background with 5 people visible on board. Spectator vessels are in the distant background. Written on the original negative sleeve: "International M. B. Race" and stamped: "PLATE NO." and written: "312 [crossed out] #303 / Box 26". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.303S

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection