Spinnakers, GLEAM, #US11, and NORTHERN LIGHT, #US14, Larchmont Race Week, 1938

black-and-white photograph; safety negative; copy negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1938
safety film, AGFA
overall: 7 x 5 in.

7x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on July 9, 1938. Image of 70' Clinton Crane designed, Henry B. Nevins built 12 meter class sloop GLEAM (built 1937 in City Island, NY) and 70' Sparkman & Stephens designed, Henry B. Nevins built 12 meter class sloop NORTHERN LIGHT (built 1938 in City Island, NY) between Larchmont Yacht Club and Shippan Point. Visible in image: port quarter view of GLEAM (12 / US 11) and NORTHERN LIGHT (12 / 14) running free under mainsails out to port and spinnakers, crew at work, sail in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 132. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "30x30 / 12/11 Gleam 12/14 Northern Light / CUS PG 132".

1984.187.88389F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection