SPARTAN, NY50', #NY56, Indian Harbor Yacht Club, 1924

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, CT, Greenwich
1924-07-11
emulsion on glass
overall: 7 x 5 in

7x5 in. glass negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons July 11, 1924 at the Indian Harbor Yacht Club Races sponsored by the Indian Harbor Yacht Club of Greenwich, Connecticut. Image of the NY50' Class sloop, SPARTAN, sail #NY56, undersail, port quarter view on a port tack. Flag from the stern of the vessel the Rosenfeld's were in is to the far left of the neg. and slightly covers the bow area of the sloop being photographed which is also off-centered to the left. SPARTAN, sail #NY6 and then #NY56, was built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island in 1913 from the Nathanael G. Herreshoff design for a New York Yacht Club 50' Class boat with an L.O.A. of 72' and a waterline of 50'. Typed neg. sleeve info.: "12733-F". Handwritten: "7/11/24 / NYYC56 I.H.Y.C. / Spartan / Box 1111". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.12733F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection