NY50' Class start, IROQUOIS, #NY3, NIMBUS, #LO3, SPARTAN, #NY6, New York Yacht Club Cruise, 1924

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1924-08
emulsion on glass
overall: 6 x 8 in.

6x8 glass negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons during the time of the New York Yacht Club Cruise in August of 1924. Image of four New York Yacht Club 50' Class sloops at the 50' Class race start showing a port bow view. There are three identified vessels (l to r): IROQUOIS, a New York 50' Class sloop, #NY3, NIMBUS, a Larchmont One Design, #L3, and SPARTAN, a New York 50' Class sloop, #NY56. IROQUOIS, sail #NY3 and then #NY53, was built by Herreshoff Mfg. of Bristol, Rhode Island to the 1913 Herreshoff design for a New York Yacht Club 50' Class boat with an L.O.A. of 72' and a waterline of 50'. NIMBUS was a 59' Larchmont One Design, sail #NY3, built in 1917 by Wood and McClure of City Island, New York and designed by William Gardner & Company. SPARTAN, sail #NY6 and then #NY56, was built by Herreshoff Mfg. of Bristol, Rhode Island to the 1913 Herreshoff design for a New York Yacht Club 50' Class boat with an L.O.A. of 72' and a waterline of 50'. Typed neg. sleeve info.: "4888-S / NYYC CRUISE". Stamped: "AUG 1924". Handwritten: "Start 50 footers / Box 234". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

NIMBUS sloop, Larchmont O Class, #3; IROQUOIS sloop, NY 50' Class, #3
1984.187.4888S

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection