"Atlantic 10, 1947"

gelatin silver print

8x10 gelatin silver print from 4x5 black-and-white negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1947. Image of 30.5' Burgess & Morgan designed, Abeking & Rasmussen built Atlantic class sloop WHIM (built 1929 in Lemwerder, Germany), 20.5' Herreshoff S class sloop TINKER (built 1919 in Bristol, RI), and a 18' Philip Rhodes designed, Cape Cod Shipbuilding Co. built Rhodes 18 class sloop (built in Wareham, Mass.) at Manhasset Bay Yacht Club Race Week off Port Washington, NY. Visible in image: port bow view of WHIM (A/10) running before the wind under marconi-rigged mainsail and spinnaker, in background are numerous sloops including a Rhodes 18 class sloop (CR / 24) and TINKER (S/8). CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 99 and 117. Handwritten on back: "Atlantic 10" and Stamped on back in rectangular box: “MORRIS ROSENFELD / PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR / 116 NASSAU ST., N.Y. / Phone Beekman 3-4970” and "118474F".

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection