WHITE LIE, NY32' Class, #1, Off-Soundings, 1953

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1953
safety film, Kodak
5 x 4 x 0 in.

5x4 Kodak safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons during the Off-Soundings Race of 1953. View of the 32 foot class boat, WHITE LIE, NY #1, undersail, starboard quarter view; reaching, on a port tack. Crew and family on board seated aft. WHITE LIE, a NY32' class sloop, NY #1, was originally known as VALENCIA and then as ALAR, WHITE LIE, SHADY LADY, WHISPER III, ICARAUS II and PENANCE, was a 1935 Sparkman & Stephens, Inc. design. Built by Henry B. Nevins of City Island, NY in 1936. Stamped negative sleeve info.: "136183F / [Box] 5269 / OFF-SOUNDINGS RACE 1953". Handwritten info.: "White Lie NY1". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.136183F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection