12-Meters Around the Buoys, 1939

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1939-09-17
Kodak safety negative
7 x 5 in.

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on September 17, 1939. Image of 70' Sparkman & Stephens designed, Henry B. Nevins built 12 meter class sloop VIM (built 1939 in City Island, N.Y.), 70' Sparkman & Stephens designed, Henry B. Nevins built 12 meter class cutter SEVEN SEAS (built 1935 in City Island, NY) and an unidentified 12 meter. Visible in image: port bow view of three 12 meters: unidentified (12/US ), VIM and SEVEN SEAS (12/US9) running before the wind under marconi-rigged mainsails out to port and spinnakers, other sails and lighthouses in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 135. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "negative 113126F / DDN / 94480F 9/17/39 / ? Vim- Seven Seas".

UNIDENTIFIED sloop, 12 meter, US #?
1984.187.94480F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection