VALHALLA, #88, Rhodes Swiftsure, Off-Soundings, 1963

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
1963
safety film, Kodak #7
overall: 5 x 4 in.

5x4 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons during the Off-Soundings Race of 1963. Image of the auxiliary sloop VALHALLA undersail, port beam view, close-hauled with spinnaker set. The crew on board have been identified as Robert E. Burnett, skipper and owner, Allen Burnett, David Burnett, Robert S. Burnett and David Burnham. VALHALLA was a 33' Rhodes Swiftsure, class logo, RS, sail #88, designed by Philip L. Rhodes and built by Gerard de Vries Lentsch, Jr. of Amsterdam in the Netherlands in 1962. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "174418 / [Box] 5894 / OFF-SOUNDINGS 1963". Handwritten: "88 / VALHALLA". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.174418F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection