Brazilian team draped over the side of #5212, port beam view, International Snipe Races, Larchmont, 1949

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Larchmont
1949-08-22
safety film, Kodak #45
overall: 5 x 4 in.

5x4 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons. View of International Snipe Class sloop, #BL5212, raced by the Brazilian crew in 1949, undersail port quarter view on a starboard tack in high winds with the sail hiding the crew leaning over or draped over the starboard side. Snipe #BL5212 was a 15'6" William F. Crosby design built by or before 1949. She was raced in the International Snipe Class races of August 22, 1949 held by the Larchmont Yacht Club of Larchmont, New York and sailed by the skipper Gastao Hugh Pullen Pereia de Souza and crewman Pedro Avelino. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "124778F / [Box] 5078". Typed: "8/24/49 / Intnl Snipe Race at Larchmont / Snipe 5212 Brazil". Handwritten on negative in pencil along top edge: "2 / Brazil". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.124778F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection