silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Mitchell, Carleton
Nassau; New Providence; Bahamas
Circa 1950
4.00 x 4.00 x 0

Silver print; photographed by Carleton Mitchell; from photograph album 1996.31.6010; rough surf over the bar; Hog Island Lighthouse; Nassau; New Providence, Bahamas; ca. 1950; handwritten on reverse "2566"; published in "Yachtsman's Camera" by Carleton Mitchell on pages 14 and 15; caption for this picture reads "The entrance to Nassau, Bahamas, with a/ long swell breaking across the end of Hog/ Island. The light shows red or a flag is flown/ when the bar is impassable. This sea was the/ result of a "norther," a winter gale originat-/ ing as an Aleutian blizzard.".

1996.31.6010.6