sloop ESMERALDA NY5 and sloop CLOTHO NY9 evenly matched, starboard bows, running, Larchmont Race Week, 1936

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1936-07-21
safety film, Eastman Kodak #90; emulsion recovered
overall: 7 x 5 in.

7x5 in. Kodak negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons, July 21, 1936 during Larchmont Race Week of two New York 32' class sloops. Image of ESMERALDA, #5, in the foreground, and CLOTHO, #9 in the background to the right racing against each other, starboard bow view, sails running free, spinnakers set. Man on spinnaker pole of ESMERALDA. Other sail in the distance. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "76187F / JUL 21 1936 / RACE WEEK 1936 / [BOX] 4275". Handwritten: "NY5 & NY9 / Esmeralda / Clotho." CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.76187F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection