silver print

Silver print; photographed by Carleton Mitchell; from photograph album 1996.31.6010; Oxford 400 class sloop SURPRISE III under sail; Chesapeake Bay; ca. 1950; handwritten on reverse "4156"; almost identical view published on pages 50 and 51 in "Yachtsman's Camera" by Carleton Mitchell; published 1950; handwritten on reverse "427"; book caption for this image "SURPRISE III an Oxford "400" groping/ through a Chesapeake fog, a rare enough/ phenomenon to be worthy of record - al-/ though the Bay does have its share of thick/ weather in mid-winter.".