Six Meter Class sloops CHEROKEE, #53, racing TIDSFORDRIV, #78, Larchmont Race Week, 1949

black-and -white negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Larchmont
1949-07-22
safety film, Kodak #41
overall: 5 x 4 in.

5x4 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons July 22, 1949 during the time of Larchmont Race Week sponsored by the Larchmont Yacht Club of New York. Image of CHEROKEE, a 6 Meter Class sloop, sail #53, undersail, port beam view, passing the 6 Meter, TIDSFORDRIV, #78. CHEROKEE was a 37'3" 6 Meter Class sloop designed by Sparkman & Stephens,Inc. and built by Henry B. Nevins, Inc., of City Island, New York in 1930 and was owed by Richard W. Blanchard in 1949. The 6 Meter, TIDSFORDRIV, #78, was built in 1935 and owned by Richard F. Sheehan in 1949. Stamped neg. sleeve info.: "124083F / JUL 22 1949 / LARCHMONT RACE WEEK 1949 / [Box] 5067". Handwritten: "6/53 - 6/78". CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.124083F

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection