PERSEPHONE, #1, starboard bow view running free undersail, New York Yacht Club Cruise, 1939

safety negative

5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1939. Image of 55' L. Francis Herreshoff designed, Britt Brothers built auxiliary yawl PERSEPHONE (built 1937 in Saugus, Mass.) at NYYC Cruise. Visible in image: starboard bow view of PERSEPHONE (1) running before the wind under marconi-rigged main and mizzen sails, mizzen staysail and spinnaker with crew facing camera, William J. Strawbridge's private signal- white swallow tail with blue triangle on edge and red triangle along swallowtail- flies from mainsail. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 91 and 116. Handwritten on negative sleeve: “Persephone #1” and stamped: "93647F / NYYC CRUISE 1939 / 4558".

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection