Unidentified Sloop, Bird Class #9, undersail, Larchmont, New York, 1916
black-and-white photograph; glass negative
PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVESRosenfeld and Sons
Larchmont
1916
emulsion on glass
overall: 6 x 8 in.
6x8 glass negative photographed by Morris Rosenfeld during the Larchmont Yacht Club Labor Day Races in September 1916. Image shows a port bow view of an unidentified sloop, Bird Class #9, close hauled on a port tack with the starboard rail down. Information written on the original negative sleeve: "Cover [underlined] / L.Y.C. 1916 / Larchmont Labor Day / Bird #9 / Box 185 [crossed out] 190 [all underlined] / Plate 1248 Box 99". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.
UNIDENTIFIED sloop, Bird logo, #9
1984.187.1248S
Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection