Auxiliary yawl REDHEAD, August 15, 1943

silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Sylvia, Richard Pratt
USA, NY, Greenport
1943-08-15
paper
overall: 7 x 5 in.

Silver print; black-and-white photograph of auxiliary yawl REDHEAD (built 1936), CGR-3018, August 15, 1943; starboard view of REDHEAD under full sail, date of photograph indicates she is probably racing in the third race sponsored by the Shelter Island Yacht Club, Long Beach Bar (Bug Light) lighthouse in Orient, NY is in background. Included in photograph album 2007.44.2. Print reproduced from original negative (1997.108.137) by Richard Pratt Sylvia. A series of three races was sponsored by the Shelter Island Yacht Club during the summer of 1943.


2007.44.2.28

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