AVIS and EDMEE, motor yachts, underway, Larchmont Yacht Club race, 1912

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld, Morris
USA, NY, Larchmont
1912
emulsion on glass
overall: 6 x 8 in.

6x8 glass negative photographed by Morris Rosenfeld in 1912 at the time of the Larchmont Yacht Club Motor Boat race. Image is a port beam view of the motor yachts AVIS, temporary racing #5, and EDMEE, temporary racing #1, underway. A sloop underway, a launch at a mark with a bell-shaped buoy that is being set or retrieved, and a treed shoreline are visible in the background. Written on the original negative sleeve: "L.Y.C. M. B. race 1912 / M.B. / Edmee / Avis / Plate 539 [partially obscured] Box 42 ". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.539S

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection