cutter ACTAEA (36)/3 under sail, starboard bow, running, Larchmont Race Week, 1936

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Batch 168
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Larchmont
1936-07-21
safety film, Eastman Kodak #90; emulsion recovered
overall: 7 x 5 in.

7x5 in. Kodak negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons, July 21, 1936 during Larchmont Race Week of the 50'4" Belknap & Paine and Lawley cutter (1936), ACTAEA, a one design, sail #3, started life in 1936 as a presentation of a possible new class as a One Design 36. This design was not chosen and her sail number was changed to #72. ACTAEA is shown here undersail, starboard bow view on a starboard tack, running free, spinnaker set, crew working with lines at the base of the mast. Shoreline in the distance. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "76132F / JUL 21 1936 / RACE WEEK 1936 / [BOX] 4274". Handwritten: "36 (in a circle) 3 Actaea". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

ACTAEA sloop, 50', Circle 36 logo, #3
1984.187.76132F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection