Sound Interclubs #3, BLUE STREAK and #6, ERMAR, Newport Races, 1929

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, RI, Newport
1929-08-04
safety film, Kodak
overall: 5 x 7 in.

5x7 negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons, August 4, 1929 at the Newport Races. Long shot of the Sound Interclub race event showing #ISC6, ERMAR on the left and #ISC3, BLUE STREAK on the right, racing in high winds with BLUE STREAK with a torn sail just before being dismasted. ERMAR was a 28'9" Sound Interclub Class sloop, sail #ISC6, built by Henry B. Nevins of City Island, New York from designs by Charles Drown Mower in 1926 and owned by Donald H. Cowl in 1929. BLUE STREAK was also a 28'9" Sound Interclub Class sloop, sail #ISC3, and was owned by Ralph Manny in 1929. Typed neg. sleeve info.: "35115-F" Stamped: "NEWPORT 1929". Handwritten: "Interclubs dismasted / 8/4/29 / Box 2523". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

UNIDENTIFIED sloop, Sound Interclub Class, 6(?); UNIDENTIFIED sloop, Sound Interclub Class, 3
1984.187.35115F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection