sloop ESMERALDA NY5 having trouble with her spinnaker at the finish of the NYYC32's at Larchmont Race Week, starboard bows, 1936

black-and-white photograph; safety negative

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

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons of New York 32' class sloops at the time of what may be Larchmont(?) Race Week, July 21, 1936. Image of a race finish with New York 32' class sloops showing a port bow view with spinnakers set on three of the vessels and the spinnaker lowered and in the water on the vessel in the foreground to the left. From left to right: #NY5 ESMERALDA, #NY9 CLOTHO, #NY12 RAMPAGE, and to the far right is the Star Class sloop, #11 NEREID III. The New York 32' Class sloops were a 1935 Sparkman & Stephens, Inc. design from which at least 20 vessels were built by Henry B. Nevins, Inc. of City Island, New York in 1936. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "76185F / JUL 21 1936 / RACE WEEK 1936 / [Box] 4275". Handwritten: "Finish NY Class". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.


UNIDENTIFIED sloop, NY32', #5; UNIDENTIFIED sloop, NY32', #9; UNIDENTIFIED sloop, NY 32', #12; UNIDETIFIED sloop, Star Class, #1121
1984.187.76185F

Mystic Seaport Museum, Rosenfeld Collection



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