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From the Office of Public Relations For Release in Papers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge 39, Massachusetts SUNDAY, September 14, 1958

The America's Cup Races, held this year for the first time since 1937, will

be the subject of an exhibit opening at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

on Tuesday. A collection of photographs, models, and plans will be shown from

September 17 until October 5 in the New Gallery of M.I. T. 's Hayden Library.

Both the history of the Races and the current competitors are pictured in

photographs by Morris and Stanley Rosenfeld, the famed yachting photographers.

The designers of the four boats competing to represent America have loaned de-

sign drawings and towing tank models of Vim, Columbia, Weatherly and Easterner

Photographs of the English challenger, Sceptre, have been loaned by "Yachting

World" (London) and Beken and Sons (Cowes, Isle of Wight).

The Races are named for the United States yacht, the America, that first

defeated the English in 1851. Both the America, and many of the "J" boats that

have defended the cup, are shown in photographs belonging to Chandler Hovey

Senior, owner of the Easterner. This year's trials are illustrated with photo-

graphs loaned by the Associated Press, Life magazine and Transfilm.

To the winner of the Races that begin on September 20 will go the America's

Cup, presented to the New York Yacht Club in 1857 by the owners of the America.

A lifesize picture of the cup will be exhibited at M.I. T., while its fate is being

decided off the shore of Newport, R.I.

The exhibit will be open to the public without charge weekdays from 10 to

5 p. m., Saturdays and Sundays from 2 to 5 p. m.

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