silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Mitchell, Carleton
Europe, Baltic Sea
1949
8.00 x 10.00 x 0

Silver print; photographed by Carleton Mitchell; yawl yacht ARGYLL seen from the deck of yawl yacht CARIBBEE; enroute from Saltsjobaden, Sweden to Mariehamm, Finland; rubberstamped and handwritten on reverse "PHOTOGRAPH BY/ CARLETON MITCHELL/ PLEASE CREDIT/ The yawl ARGYLL, owned by William T. Moore of Oyster Bay, New York,/ seen from the yawl CARIBBEE, of Annapolis, Maryland. Picture taken sailing/ through the Swedish skerries in the summer of 1949 on a passage from Saltsjobaden,/ Sweden, to Mariehamn, Finland. Beyond, between Porkkala, Finland, and Nargo,/ Estonia, the two American yawls passed through a fold in the Iron Curtain to reach/ Helsingfors. In 1950 ARGYLL won the Newport to Bermuda Race./ (This photograph is from YACHTSMAN'S CAMERA by Carleton Mitchell,/ published by D. Van Nostrand Co., of New York)"; published in "Yachtsman's Camera" by Carleton Mitchell; 1950.


1996.31.6499

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