NADJI and FEI SEEN, schooner, Larchmont Race Week, 1926

glass negative

5x7 glass plate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons between July 17-24, 1926. Image of 58.5' Cox & Stevens designed, Bath Iron Works built Seawanhaka Corinthian auxiliary schooners NADJI and FEI SEEN(built 1925 in Bath, Me.) at Larchmont Race Week, off Larchmont, NY. Visible in image: port quarter view of NADJI, flying private signal of Henry L. DeForest: blue swallowtail with white diamond in center and red outline on inner tail- and FEI SEEN, flying private signal of Irving Cox: white swallowtail with cross with black vertical and red horizontal triangular arms- on starboard close reach under marconi-rigged mainsails, main staysail and fisherman's staysail, club-footed forestaysail and flying jib. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 49 and 111. Typed on negative sleeve: “19498-F”, handwritten: "Nadji + Fei Seen / Y 1 / SC 12 SC1 / Box 1553" and stamped: "LARCHMONT RACE WEEK 1926".

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection