An obscured street view of the Schooner Market in Willemstad, Curacao
An obscured street view of the Schooner Market in Willemstad, Curacao. The photographers is stand on the west side of the street looking north. A partial view of a white BMW 1800 saloon and a flatbed lorry are in the foreground. There are schooners and fishing boats berthed at the quayside on the east side of the street. Numerous local customers are interacting with the market tellers. There are berthed schooners and fishing vessels and dockyard buildings ion the far side of the harbour. A partial view of Queen Juliana Bridge is in the background. This is Slide 47 of a series of slides detailing Captain H. Bird's service as Watchkeeping Officer on board the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) owned by the Commercial Cable Company of London from 22 January 1973 to 26 April 1973. The series consists of 62 slides.
Object Details
ID: | PCT16476 |
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Type: | Colour transparency |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Henry P. Bird |
Date made: | Between early and late March 1973 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Bird Collection |
Measurements: | Image: 27 mm x 27 mm;Mount: 50 mm x 50 mm |
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