WINDWARD, #P64, and CORINTHIAN, #P51, undersail, Larchmont Yacht Club, 1911

black-and -white negative

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

6x8 glass negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1911 off Larchmont Yacht Club on Long Island Sound, New York. View of two vessels racing showing a starboard beam view. In the foreground is the gaff-rigged sloop WINDWARD, P Class, sail #P64, and racing behind is CORINTHIAN, also a gaff-rigged P Class sloop, #P51. WINDWARD was built in 1909 by B. Frank Wood of City Island, New York from designs by William Gardner. CORINTHIAN was a 54'4" sloop built in 1911 by Herreshoff Manufacturing of Bristol, Rhode Island and designed by Nathanael Herreshoff. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "P64 / L.Y.C. 1911." CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.498S

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection