12 Metre sloop IRIS 12/4 under sail, port aft, starboard tack, 1936
black-and-white photograph; safety negative
PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVESRosenfeld and Sons
1936-07
safety film, Eastman Kodak #102
overall: 7 x 5 in.
7x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in July of 1936. Image of IRIS undersail, port beam view with a circled 12 on the mainsail which means she is sailing as a 12 meter One Design, undersail, port beam view on a starboard tack with good view of deck. IRIS was a 69'2" 12 meter sloop, designed by Burgess, Rigg & Morgan, Ltd. and built by Abeking & Rasmussen in 1928. She was owned in 1936 by Henry L. Maxwell. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.
IRIS sloop, One Design 12 Meter, #4
1984.187.75783F
Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection