silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Mitchell, Carleton
Europe, Baltic Sea
1949
4.00 x 4.00 x 0

Silver print; photographed by Carleton Mitchell; from photograph album 1996.31.6010; deck view of yawl yacht CARIBBEE under sail in the Baltic on a passage from Helsingfors, Finland, to Visby, Isle of Gotland, Sweden; 1949; handwritten on reverse "3876"; published in "Yachtsman's Camera" by Carleton Mitchell on page 17; caption for this picture reads "A reach across the Baltic before a fresh east-/ erly, "the only good thing that comes out of/ Russia." Carrying full-cut nylon genoas,/ ARGYLL and CARIBBEE averaged nearly/ 8 knots for most of the passage from Hel-/ singfors, Finland, to Visby, Isle of Gotland,/ Sweden.".


1996.31.6010.7

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