safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Mitchell, Carleton
Sweden, Gotland, Visby; Europe, Baltic Sea
1949
2.25 x 2.25 x 0

Safety negative by Carleton Mitchell; view of a combined citadel/gate from the city wall surrounding Visby, Gotland Island, Sweden; possibly Lover's Gate, so named as the only gate open after dark so couples could stroll through the moonlit meadows; built in the 1200's by Hanseatic League merchants to protect the commercial warehouses from thieves, the surviving 38 citadels evenly spaced along the wall rise to 50-66ft; included during a cruise to the Baltic by Carleton Mitchell on board 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. '3908', corresponds to original Mitchell contact; REF: 'Baltic Cruise of the CARIBBEE' "National Geographic Magazine" (98: 605-646, November 1950).

1996.31.3789