Photograph of the Yacht YANKEE Looking Aft on Departure Day

black-and-white photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
USA, MA, Gloucester
1939-10-30
paper
overall: 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.

Black and white photograph 2 3/4in x 2 3/4in. Reverse inscription: “53” in red ink; “Gloucester, Mass” in black; “R A Dillon” stamped in blue. Taken from YANKEE’s midship looking aft. A motorboat, sailboat, breakwater, and lighthouse (undoubtedly “Dog Bar lighthouse” in Gloucester, MA) are depicted in the background. Irving Johnson looks on as two women hold the wheel. One of the Johnson children crouches in a hatch. October 30, 1939 (departure day).


2010.11.461

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