Rosenfeld Collection Chronicles A Century of Women

Carol W. Kimball

Rosenfeld Collection, A Century of Women
Mystic Seaport book, On Land and On Sea…
maritime photography
Women at war, WWI
Women in sports
Women at work
Women inventors

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Scrapbook

8: Communication Artifact

Documentary Artifact

The Day

New London, CT

05/07/2007

Carol W. Kimball

Mystic Seaport's Rosenfeld Collection represents the work of the New York firm of Morris Rosenfeld & Sons, world renowned for maritime photography. The seaport has just published, 2007, a book entitled, On Land and On Sea: A Century of Women in the Rosenfeld Collection illustrating young girls learning to sail, women doing volunteer work in WWI, women in sports, women at work in the past century. The cover image features Phyllis Brodie Gordon Sopwith, wife of Thomas Octave Murdock Sopwith, of Sopwith camel fame, on the yacht Endeavour II. Suffragists, Red Cross workers, first World War women, women telephone workers and women in sports were recorded. The book is designed by Clare Cunningham.

Rosenfeld, Morris
Rosenfeld, David
Rosenfeld, Stanley
Rosenfeld, William
Sopwith, Phyllis Brodie Gordon
Sopwith, Thomas Octave Murdock
Anderson, Margaret L.
Rosenfeld, Richard Morris
Anderson, Margaret
Jacob, Mary Phillips
Cunningham, Clare

Mystic Seaport book, On Land and On Sea, A Century of Women in the Rosenfeld Collection
maritime photography
sopwith camel
yacht Endeavour II
America's Cup Races
suffragists
women in sports
women in WWI
Red Cross women
women inventors