safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Mitchell, Carleton
SWEDEN: Sandhamn
August 1949
2.25 x 2.25 x 0

Safety negative by Carleton Mitchell, photographed August 1949; view of several Star class sloops drying their sails in preparation for a race at the Royal Swedish Yacht Club in Sandhamn, Sweden; from a beach area where the Stars are fastened with long lines to beach moorings; a partially buried large anchor lies in the foreground; included in the views of the K.S.S.S. (Kungl Svenska Segel Sallskapet) regatta week for Star class sloops: 1996.31.3569-3610, 3626-3648; taken during a cruise to the Baltic, with Carleton Mitchell aboard yawl yacht CARIBBEE and William T. Moore aboard yawl yacht ARGYLL, July - September, 1949; for views of this cruise see 1996.31.3353-4004; handwritten on original envelope neg.no. '3689', corresponds to original Mitchell contact; REF: 'Baltic Cruise of the CARIBBEE' "National Geographic Magazine" (605-646, November 1950).

UNIDENTIFIED Star class
1996.31.3580