Transatlantic Race, 1952

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Mitchell, Carleton
Atlantic Ocean
July 1952
2.25 x 2.25 x 0

Safety negative by Carleton Mitchell, photographed July 2-24, 1952, during the R.O.R.C./R.B.Y.C Trans-Atlantic Race from Bermuda to Plymouth, England; cockpit view of John B. Littlefield at the helm and Robert H. Symonette straddling the cockpit deck rail, adjusting a line, on yawl yacht CARIBBEE; for other views of the Trans-Atlantic Race 1952 on CARIBBEE see 1996.31.4339-4438; handwritten on original envelope neg.no. '4517', corresponds to original Mitchell contact; REF: "Passage East" by Carleton Mitchell (1953).

1996.31.4339