silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Mitchell, Carleton
SWEDEN: Sandhamn
1949
4.00 x 4.00 x 0

Silver print; photographed by Carleton Mitchell; from photograph album 1996.31.6010; Star class sloop being swept on to granite ledge; Sandhamn, Sweden; during a regatta; 1949; handwritten on reverse "3744"; published on page 84 of "Yachtsman's Camera" by Carleton Mitchell; 1950; caption for this view "On a rainy, blowy morning the K.S.S.S. rac-/ ing fleet beat through rock lined narrows at/ Sandhamn against a strong current. Of sev-/ eral hundred boats of all sizes and types only/ this Star came to grief, missing stays trying/ to avoid a 10-Meter and being swept onto a/ granite ledge.".

UNIDENTIFIED Star class
1996.31.6010.67