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Bark Nellie Moody, unloading salt, ca. 1890

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

ca. 1890

GUSN

GUSN-180328

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Description

This is the Little Bark Nellie Moody ship docked in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The seamen of the ship are working on various tasks and the seamen on the dock are loading and unloading different products such as salt.

Details

Descriptive Terms

ships
docks
seamen
wharves
transportation
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Inscription

built in Green Cove, Nova Scotia, 1873 (handwritten)

Physical Description

1 photograph ; 4 1/4 x 7 inches

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.1080.0050.001

Image Dimensions

4 1/4 x 7 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Gloucester (Essex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Accruals Note

W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg.44

Description Level

Item

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