International One-Design race start, 1941

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
1941
Kodak safety film #144
5 x 7 in.

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons circa 1941. Image of 33' Bjarne Aas International One Design sloops MYSTIC, ARIEL, FEATHER, SUSAN, ELSELAN, and four unidentified (built 1937 in Fredrikstad, Norway) at starting line of unknown race. Visible in image: port beam views of MYSTIC (IC/14) with Philip R. Mallory's private signal-swallowtail with vertical white with blue star, blue and red vertical stripes- on mainsail, ARIEL (IC/1) with Larchmont Yacht Club burgee-triangle with blue and white vertical stripes- on mainmast, FEATHER (IC/24), SUSAN (IC/19) with unidentified burgee- perhaps Emil Mosbacher's?, ELSELAN (IC/7) and four unidentified on starboard close reach, heeled over under marconi-rigged mainsail and jib, other sails and land in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection, image acquired in honor of Hudson H. Bubar. For more information see: A CENTURY UNDER SAIL, text by Stanley Rosenfeld, p. 146. Stamped on original negative sleeve: 102709F" and typed: "Intnl Class".

UNIDENTIFIED sloop, Int. One Design, #14; UNIDENTIFIED sloop, Int. One Design, #1; UNIDENTIFIED sloop, Int. One Design, #24; UNIDENTIFIED sloop, Int. One Design, #19; UNIDENTIFIED sloop, Int. One Design, #7
1984.187.102709F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection