W. Starling Burgess sailing a 16-foot aluminum boat off Larchmont during Race Week, 1939

black-and -white negative; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Larchmont
1939
safety film, Kodak
overall: 5 x 4 in.

5x4 safety negative by Rosenfeld and Sons, 1939. Image is a starboard beam view of W. Starling Burgess and his wife Marjorie Young sailing a 16-foot aluminum sloop, close-hauled on a port tack, off Larchmont during the Larchmont Race Week, 1939. The unnamed knockabout sloop, # A2 is a sister vessel of PIROUETTE, # A1 designed by W. Starling Burgess and built by Aluminum Corporation of America. Stamped and written on negative sleeve: "93012F / Burgess Aluminum Boat / [box] 4547". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.93012F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection