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Old fish cart

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GUSN

GUSN-187932

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Description

This carte-de visite-depicts a group of children playing in an old wooden fish cart. The cart is located among the sand grass near a cluster of shingled cottages both on the shore and on the ledge above.

Details

Descriptive Terms

leisure
children (people by age group)
beaches
play (recreation)
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
photographs

Physical Description

1 carte-de-visite

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.1960.0080.001

Abstract

W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 114-115.

Acquisition Type

Gift

Places

Siasconset (Nantucket Island, Nantucket county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Wyer's Nantucket Views (Nantucket, Mass.) (Vendor)

Material Type

cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
photographs

Description Level

Item

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