LIL TOO II

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1935-09-24
safety film; emulsion recovered

7 x 5 in. gelatin silver print made by Rosenfeld and Sons September 24, 1935. Image of LIL TOO II undersail showing a starboard bow view with a gaff rig. This vessel was originally known as BAGATELLE and was a Herreshoff Buzzards Bay 25 built in 1914 by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island from designs by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff. She was sold over the summer of 1935 to Robert Bruck who installed a Gray gas engine and renamed her in 1935 as LIL TOO II (changed in the 1936 Lloyds). Only five boats were built as Herreshoff Buzzard's Bay 25's for the Beverly Yacht Club of Massachusetts. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "72986F / [Box] 4216". Typed: "9/24/35 / Lil Too II". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.72986F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection