Blue Jay Class race start, Larchmont Race Week, 1959

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Larchmont
1959
safety film, Kodak
overall: 4 x 5 in.

4x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons during the time of Larchmont Race Week in 1959. Long shot of a Blue Jay Class race start with many boats in a group, undersail, starboard quarter view. The Blue Jay was a 13’6” one-design sloop built to racing specifications and was designed by Drake Sparkman of Sparkman and Stephens in 1947. Stamped negative sleeve info.: "163798F / [Box] 5717". Typed: "LARCHMONT RACE WEEK 1959". Handwritten: "Start Blue Jays". Notation of print possibly sent by Rosenfeld and Sons to the following: "R" (Rudder). CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.163798F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection