Playing musical instruments aboard 4-masted bark PEKING, 1929

soft negative

Soft negative, by Irving M. Johnson taken during 1929 cruise of 4-masted bark PEKING (bu. 1911, Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany). Ref: "Round the Horn in a Square Rigger", by Capt. Irving Johnson, Milton Bradley Co., Springfield, MA, 1932. Group playing musical instruments on deck; "Book ph #19 - (possible subst.) A. Can you get a better print of this one?" Johnson's handwritten notation on paper with negative.