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Photo, Print, Drawing Mayor's Cup Sailboat Race, Lowell, Massachusetts

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About this Item

Title

  • Mayor's Cup Sailboat Race, Lowell, Massachusetts

Names

  • Taylor, David Alan, 1951- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • September 19, 1987

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Massachusetts
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Massachusetts -- Lowell

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: All of these photographs depict activities related to the Mayor's Cup Sailboat Race sponsored by the Regatta Foundation and held in the Merrimack River at Lowell, Massachusetts. (See LFP-DT-F0919.A for related fieldnotes.) 2-3, racers on the river; 4-9, unidentified sailboat on the river; 10-12, sailors adjust sails before a race; 13-14, unidentified sailboat boat on the river; 15-20, Government Class race winners Sam Poulten and Sandy Zirnheld in their boat; 21-22, unidentified sailors; 23-26, Government Class race winners Sam Poulten (left) and Sandy Zirnheld; 27-37, unidentified sailors on the river

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1987/042: LFP-DT-232

Source Collection

  • Lowell Folklife Project collection (AFC 1987/042)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Online Format

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Credit line: Lowell Folklife Project collection (AFC 1987/042), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Taylor, David Alan. Mayor's Cup Sailboat Race, Lowell, Massachusetts. United States Lowell Massachusetts, 1987. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1987042_dt_232/.

APA citation style:

Taylor, D. A. (1987) Mayor's Cup Sailboat Race, Lowell, Massachusetts. United States Lowell Massachusetts, 1987. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1987042_dt_232/.

MLA citation style:

Taylor, David Alan. Mayor's Cup Sailboat Race, Lowell, Massachusetts. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1987042_dt_232/>.