YANKEE, sloop underway 1930

black-and-white photograph; glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1930-07-09
emulsion, plate glass
7 x 5 in.

5 x 7 glass plate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on July 9, 1930. Image of 126' George Lawley & Son Corp. J Class sloop YANKEE (built 1930 in Neponset, Mass.) underway. Visible in image: port bow view of the J Class sloop YANKEE running free before the wind under marconi rigged mainsail, genoa and spinnaker. YANKEE was an US America's Cup 1930 potential defender. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Z. Rosenfeld, page 63. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "40863F / 7/9/30 / Yankee".

1984.187.40863F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection