safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Mitchell, Carleton
SWEDEN: Kalmar
1949
2.25 x 2.25 x 0

Safety negative by Carleton Mitchell; view of Kalmar Castle in the Smaland region of southern Sweden, from the water; on Kalmar Sound, Sweden; the oldest parts of the castle date to the eleventh century, and it became the center of the Kalmar Union in 1397, when a treaty was signed here uniting Denmark, Norway and Sweden; restored in the nineteenth century; yawl yachts CARIBBEE and ARGYLL lie at anchor between the castle and the camera; included with the views of a cruise to the Baltic by Carleton Mitchell on board yawl yacht CARIBBEE and William T. Moore aboard yawl yacht ARGYLL, July - September 1949; for views of this cruise see 1996.31.3353-4004; handwritten on original envelope neg.no. '3977', corresponds to original Mitchell contact; REF: 'Baltic Cruise of the CARIBBEE' "National Geographic Magazine" (98: 605-646, November 1950).


1996.31.3853

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