BARUNA, port quarter view on a starboard tack, 1938
safety negative; copy negative
PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVESRosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY
1938
AGFA safety film
7 x 5 x 0 in.
5 x 7 Agfa copy negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1938. Image of 72' Sparkman & Stephens designed, Quincy Adams Yacht Yard built auxiliary yawl BARUNA (built 1938 in Quincy, Mass.) at the New York Yacht Club Cruise. Visible in image: starboard quarter view of the yawl BARUNA (73) on port close reach under marconi-rigged main and mizzensails, mizzen staysail and genoa plowing a deep furrow through the waves, Henry C. Taylor's private signal- red swallowtail with black stripe through center and along edge- flies from mizzenmast, land and another sailboat in background. [Note: sail number seen here is 73, BARUNA typically sailed as number 98]. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 90 and 116. Stamped on original negative sleeve: "89126F / N.Y.Y.C. CRUISE 1938". Handwritten on sleeve: "Baruna 73".
BARUNA yawl
1984.187.89126F
Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection