ADVENTURESS, #M93, racing GARDENIA, #M20, Larchmont Yacht Club races, 1912

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld, Morris
USA, NY, Larchmont
1912
emulsion on glass
overall: 6 x 8 in.

6x8 glass negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1912 during the time of the Larchmont Yacht Club races. Image is a long shot of the vessels ADVENTURESS and GARDENIA racing showing a port beam view on a port tack. ADVENTURESS sailed in the M Class with the sail number #M93 and was a 67'7" sloop built 1909 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island from designs by Nathanael G. Herreshoff. GARDENIA was a 60' M Class cutter with the sail number #M20 and was built in 1906 by B.Frank Wood of City Island, New York from designs by William Gardner. Handwritten neg. sleeve info.: "493S / L.Y.C. 1912 / M20 / M93 / Box 39". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.493S

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection