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The Rosenfeld Collection, purchased in 1984 by the Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. is one of the largest archives of maritime photography in the United States. This collection of nearly one million pieces, documents the period from 1881 to the present representing the evolution of photographic technology and development in the maritime industry, over the last one hundred years. The collection is built on the inventory of the Morris Rosenfeld & Sons' photographic business, located in New York City from 1910 until the late 1970's.
Due to the chronological arrangement of the negatives in the collection, the evolution of sail, hull, and engine design spanning more than a century, can be observed by the researcher. The America's Cup Races are fully represented from 1885 to 1992.
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