Baltic trading schooner, Kalmar Sound, Sweden, 1949

safety negative

Safety negative by Carleton Mitchell; view of one of the last Baltic trading schooners northbound in Kalmar Sound on the east coast of Sweden; from some distance and obscured by a setting sun; taken from the deck of yawl yacht CARIBBEE 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. '3996' corresponds to original Mitchell contact; REF: 'Baltic Cruise of the CARIBBEE' "National Geographic Magazine" (98: 605-646, November 1950); PUBL: 'Yachtsman's Camera' (1950) endpapers.