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The Launch "Sagitta"

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1897

GUSN

GUSN-179785

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Description

There is a group of men and children sitting and standing on the steam boat, "Sagitta", in Falmouth, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The boat is tied to a dock that is located near warehouses. Buildings line the dock and stretch down the pier.

Details

Descriptive Terms

steamboats
docks
wharves
transportation
warehouses
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Inscription

No 1130 Series B / Made 1897 By Baldwin Coolidge 8078 Recd 17 Sept. 1918 From Purchase Subject Woods Hole Mass The Launch Sagitta / Pacific, Guano Works buildings R.H. Backer 28 Feb 1983 (handwritten)

Physical Description

1 photograph ; 8 x 10 inches

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.0980.0080.001

Image Dimensions

8 x 10 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Falmouth (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Woods Hole (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928 (Photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Description Level

Item

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