silver print

Silver print; photographed by Carleton Mitchell; from photograph album 1996.31.6010; Chesapeake Log canoe NODDY under sail; ca. 1950; handwritten on reverse "2170"; published on page 80 of "Yachtsman's Camera" by Carleton Mitchell; 1950; caption for this view "NODDY, a Chesapeake Bay Log Canoe built/ by Oliver Duke of Royal Oak, Maryland,/ when 65. Strictly speaking, she is not a work/ boat: she "never tonged a bushel" and her/ curved masts and wishbone "spreets" are not/ traditional. Yet she represents the develop-/ ment of the type.".