Schooner, Anguilla, 1969

gelatin silver print

Gelatin silver print; photographed by Carleton Mitchell; goat in pasture; schooner being built in the background; Anguilla; taken on a "triangular mini cruise" which included Anguilla, St. Barthelemy and St. Martin on board Grand Banks 42 SANS TERRE; fall 1969; handwritten on reverse "112/ 3 20" and rubberstamped "11 510"; typewritten label glued to back of print reads "#10, 11 - Schooner taking form on the beach at Sandy Ground Village,/ Anguilla, while goats browse and shipwrights ply adzes in the shade/ of a seagrape tree. The men of Anguilla not only build ships in the/ old fashion, but carry cargos in them throughout the Caribbean"; this print made from Mitchell 35 mm negative 1996.31.5145.19; for other views of the "triangular mini cruise" see 1996.31.5144 - 1996.31.5157. Ref: Carleton Mitchell's notes in the C. Mitchell manuscript collection; G.W. Blunt White Library; "Triangular Mini-Cruise", by Carleton Mitchell; "Yachting"; Nov. 1970.