Start Schooners, 1921

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1921-07-28
emulsion on glass
6 x 8 in.

6 x 8 glass plate negative taken by Rosenfeld and Sons on July 28, 1921. View of 100' Herreshoff schooner OHONKARA (built 1920 in Bristol, RI), 114' Lawley & Son built, Arthur Binney design schooner SONNICA (built 1906 in S. Boston, Mass.), and 85' Lawley & Son built, Tams, Lemoine & Crane design schooner DERVISH (built 1906 in S. Boston, Mass.) seen at the start of the New York Yacht Club cruise. Visible in image: port beam views of three schooners running free before the wind under gaff-rigged main and foresails, topsails, main staysails, and genoa jibs, schooners from foreground to background: OHONKARA (C/2), SONNICA (D/15) and DERVISH. Both SONNICA and DERVISH were wooden hulled vessels, OHONKARA was steel-hulled. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: " N.Y. Yacht Club Cruise / Ohonkara in the foreground. / Box 178". Stamped: "4202S JUL 28 1921".

DERVISH schooner; SONICA schooner, D #15; OHONKARA schooner, C #2
1984.187.4202S

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection