Auxiliary schooner COUNTESS

silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Sylvia, Richard Pratt
before 1946
paper
overall: 10 x 8-1/8 in.

Silver print; black-and-white photograph of auxiliary schooner COUNTESS (built before 1944), CG-55031; starboard view of COUNTESS under power, sails are furled, most of crew is around makeshift doghouse, wooded shore in background; stamped on back in green ink "RICHARD PRATT SYLVIA/ P. O. Box 922/ Church St. Station/ New York 8, N.Y."; handwritten on back in pencil "9231/ 33 - 25/ 1208/ (?)" and "4 high - (?) to 3-1/8 mds (?)". Included in photograph album 2007.44.2. Print reproduced from original negative (1997.108.57) by Richard Pratt Sylvia.


2007.44.2.2

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