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; a stern view of a Star class sloop in trouble in the narrows at Sandhamn, Sweden, during the Kungl Svenska Segel Sallskapet (K.S.S.S.) regatta and race week; the Star had tried to avoid another vessel and missed the stays to be swept onto a granite ledge; included in the views of the K.S.S.S. (Kungl Svenska Segel Sallskapet) regatta week: 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 19936.31.3353-4004; handwritten on original envelope neg.no. '3744' corresponds to original Mitchell contact; REF: 'Baltic Cruise of the CARIBBEE' "National Geographic Magazine" (605-646, November 1950); PUBL: 'Yachtsman's Camera' (1950) pg. 84.

UNIDENTIFIED Star class
1996.31.3635