Wee Scot's and other classes at start, Larchmont Race Week, 1929

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Larchmont
1929-07-23
safety film, Kodak #96
5 x 7 x 0 in.

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons around July 23, 1929. Image of nine 15' Thomas R. Scott designed, Milton Boat Yards built Wee Scots (built in Rye, NY after 1922), 16' Pirate class sloops ALERT, GALVEZ and one unidentified and 16' Herreshoff Bulls Eye class sloop BULL FINCH (built in Bristol, RI after 1914) rounding the mark at Larchmont Race Week off Larchmont, NY. Visible in image: cluster of boats; port beam views of Wee Scot (WS / 24), Wee Scot (WS), Wee Scot (WS / 90), Pirate class (skull & crossbones / 8), Wee Scot (WS / 57), BULL FINCH (1) approaching the mark on port reaches and starboard beam views of Wee Scot (WS/ 33), 16' unidentified class (2), Wee Scot (WS / 103), ALERT (skull & crossbones / 3), Wee Scot (WS/ 71), and GALVEZ (skull & crossbones / 1) on starboard tacks having rounded the race mark, shoreline in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 54 and 112. Handwritten on negative sleeve: “Start Wee Scots / 7 C / Box 2502" and typed: "34675-F”.

1984.187.34675F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection