Q class sloop COTTON BLOSSOM II Q5 under sail, starboard bow, port tack, New York Athletic Club Race to Block Island, 1936

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, Long Island Sound
1936-07-11
safety film, Eastman Kodak #102; emulsion recovered
overall: 7 x 5 in.

7x5 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons during the time of the New York Athletic Club Race to Block Island on July 11, 1936. Image of COT TON BLOSSOM II a 49'2" Q class sloop, sail #5, designed by Johann Anker and built by Anker & Jensen in 1925, undersail, starboard beam view on a mild port tack. Walter H. Wheeler, Jr. was the owner of COTTOM BLOSSOM II, in 1936. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "75864F / [Box] 4268". Handwritten: "7/11/36 / Cotton Blossom II Q5 / Winner Sailing Class / NYAC Race to BI". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

COTTON BLOSSOM sloop, Q Class, #5
1984.187.75864F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection