TYPHOON, NY 40 footer, #45, 1931

gelatin silver print

8x10 gelatin silver print from 5x7 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons in September 1931. Image of 58' Herreshoff New York Yacht Club Forty class sloop TYPHOON (built 1916 in Bristol, RI) undersail. Visible in image: cropped stern view of "TYPHOON / N.Y." on starboard close reach under mainsail and club-footed staysail heeled over, rail down, crew hanging onto windward rail smiling at the camera, land in background, white water wake. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. For more information see: SLEEK, text by John Rousmaniere, p. 58-59, 71 and 114. Stamped on back in rectangular box: “MORRIS ROSENFELD / PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR / 116 NASSAU ST., N.Y. / Phone Beekman 3-4970” and handwritten: "16x20 / 48604F".

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection