VANITIE's mast being carried by workmen out of the Henry B. Nevins spar shop, CIty Island, New York, 1928

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York, Bronx, City Island
May 13, 1928
emulsion on glass
overall: 5 x 7 in

5x7 glass negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons, at the Henry B. Nevins Yard in City Island May 13, 1928. Image of the America's Cup sloop VANITIE's mast being carried out of the Henry B. Nevins yard spar shop. VANITIE was a 118' cutter with designed by William Gardner & Company and built by George Lawley & Son Corporation in 1914 for Alexander Smith Cochran. She was rerigged as Marconi sloop in 1928 by W. Starling Burgess and owned at that time by Harry Payne Whitney. Typewritten on original negative sleeve: "32697F / VANITIE's mast being carried to boat / [Box] 2367." CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.32697F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection