silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Mitchell, Carleton
Isles des Sain; West Indies
1947
7.00 x 8.75 x 0

Silver print; photographed by Carleton Mitchell; sloop under sail; Iles des Saintes; West Indies; 1947; rubberstamped and handwritten on reverse "1732/ Carleton Mitchell Photo/ (2nd Installment) FROM/ RETURN TO/ GRATIS/ PAY $/ The boats of Les Iles des Saintes,/ just south of and/ political dependancies of the French island of Guadeloupe, carry a/ huge spread of canvas: an overlapping/ jub and long overhanging boom. At the/ left is a house fashioned exactly like/ a ship sailing from the hillside". Published in "Islands to Windward" by Carleton Mitchell; 1948.

UNIDENTIFIED sloop
1996.31.6346