New York 30s Under Sail, 1930

gelatin silver print

8x10 gelatin silver print from missing 5x7 glass plate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1926. Image of two unidentified 43.5' Herreshoff New York Yacht Club 30 sloops (built 1905 in Bristol, RI) undersail. Visible in image: port quarter view of two unidentified NY 30 sloops on starboard close reaches, heeled over, rail down, under gaff-rigged mainsails and jibs gliding through choppy water, both fly private signals from their mainsails, in background are schooners, tankers and land. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 51 and 112. Handwritten on back: “NY 30’ class / 19120F”. Embossed in lower right corner: “MORRIS ROSENFELD / N.Y.”.

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection