sloops CIRRUS ISC28 and SHORTY III ISC5 under sail, starboard bows, running, 1936

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1936-09
safety film, Eastman Kodak #181
overall: 5 x 7 in.

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1936. Image of 29' Charles D. Mower designed, Henry B. Nevins built Sound Interclub class boats JESTER, ALBERTA, BEE, CIRRUS and SHORTY III (built 1926 in City Island, NY) racing. Visible in image: starboard bow view of CIRRUS (ISC / 28) and SHORTY III (ISC / 5) on port close reaches heeled over, rail down under marconi-rigged mainsails and spinnakers, in background JESTER (ISC / 14)?, BEE (ISC / 21) to rear of boats in foreground and ALBERTA (ISC / 27) between CIRRUS and SHORTY III, land in far background, wake from FOTO seen in lower left corner. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 83 and 115. Stamped on original negative sleeve: “77304F / 4291“ and handwritten: "I / S / C -28 + I.S.C. 5 / Cirrus - Shorty III".

1984.187.77304F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection