RESOLUTE, #J1, New York Yacht Club Cruise, 1929

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, CT, Long Island Sound
1929-08-08
safety film, Kodak #31
overall: 7 x 5 in.

7x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons during the time at the start of the New York Yacht Club Cruise beginning off New London, Connecticut August 8th and ending August 17th, 1929. Image of RESOLUTE undersail, port beam view. RESOLUTE, sail #J1, was a 106'3"cutter, designed by Nathanael G. Herreshoff and built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island in 1914 for the New York Yacht Club Syndicate to defend the 1914 America's Cup races. RESOLUTE was the last Herreshoff-designed America's Cup defender. She sailed under several different class logos. Owned by Edward W. Clarke from 1927 to 1938, he had her was rerigged in 1927 as a schooner and then rerigged again in 1929 to compete as a J Class sloop and he sailed her until 1939. Typed negative sleeve info.: "35198-F". Stamped: "N.Y.Y.C. CRUISE. 1929". Handwritten: "Resolute J1 / Box 2529".

1984.187.35198F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection