Start, New York 50-Foot Class, Larchmont Yacht Club, 1913

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld, Morris
USA, NY, Larchmont
1913-06-14
emulsion on glass
overall: 6 x 8 in.

6x8 glass negative photographed by Morris Rosenfeld on June 14, 1913, at the Larchmont Yacht Club Races. Image shows the new Herreshoff New York 50-Foot Class sloops built for the 1913 season racing off Larchmont, New York. Visible in image on the left, port quarter views, are BARBARA, #NY8 (with the private signal of H.P. Whitney - blue swallowtail with white outline), possibly SAMURI, #NY2, possibly VENTURA, NY7 (hard to read stern), and behind VENTURA is SPARTAN, #NY6. To the right of the negative are grouped GRAYLING, #NY4, IROQUOIS II, #NY3, and PLEIONE #NY9. Some land is visible in very distant background. Written on original negative sleeve: “Start / Cover / Larchmont Y.C. / 1913 / [Plate] 1040 - [Box] 82”. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

UNIDENTIFIED sloop, NY50' Class, #6; UNIDENTFIED sloop, NY50' Class, #4; UNIDENTIFIED sloop, NY50' Class, #3; UNIDENTIFIED sloop, NY50' Class, #9
1984.187.1040S

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection