sloop dinghy A2 under sail, starboard beam, port tack, Burgess aluminum boat, Larchmont race Week, 1939

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA
1939-07
saftey film, Eastman Kodak #53
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: "93020F / Burgess Aluminum Boat / [box] 4547". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. DUP 1

1984.187.93020F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection