AVENGER, #L11, ADVENTURESS, #M93, and DORELLO, #N33, racing, New York Yacht Club race start, 1911

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld, Morris
1911
emulsion on glass
overall: 6 x 8 in.

6x8 glass negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1911 at the start of the New York Yacht Club Races. Long view of the race start, centered, of several vessels undersail showing a starboard beam view. ADVENTURESS, sailing in the M Class with the sail number of #M93, was a 67'7" auxiliary sloop built 1909 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island, from designs by Nathanael G. Herreshoff. DORELLO was a 57'9" New York Yacht Club 40' Class cutter, sail #N33, built in 1908 by Hodgdon Brothers of East Boothbay, Maine, from designs by George Owen. AVENGER, sail number #L11, was designed by Nathanael G. Herreshoff and built by Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island, in 1907. Information written on the original negative sleeve: "#87 / Box 8 / N.Y. Yacht C. / L11 start 1911 / M93 / N33" and stamped: "PLATE NO." CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.87S

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection