Sound Interclub Race start, Larchmont Race Week, 1931

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, Long Island Sound
1931-07-21
safety film
6 x 8 x 0 in.

6x8 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on Long Island Sound during the time of Larchmont Race Week held from July 18th to July 24th, 1931. Image of the 1926 Charles Mower Sound Interclub design sloops built by Henry B. Nevins of City Island, New York at the start of a race in 1931. Visible in image, port bow views, from left to right: REVONOC, #ISC7, BOZO #ISC19, DITA #ISC22, ARIEL #ISC1, ALBERTA #ISC27, WILD CAT #ISC8, DIANE #ISC11, GO-BY #ISC4, SUSAN #ISC13, Unidentified ISC, Unidentified ISC which seems to have the #7 on the sail, SKYLARK #ISC18, BLUE STREAK #ISC3, Unidentified #S45, AHAB #ISC10, BOBIL #ISC26, ANNE #ISC28 and SHORTY III #ISC5 and many more fuzzy numbers in the background perhaps from other classes. Handwritten on negative sleeve: “Start Interclubs / Box 258” and typed: "5345-S". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.5345S

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection