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View of Broadway Street, Siasconset, Nantucket, Mass., undated

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GUSN

GUSN-187933

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Description

View of Broadway Street, facing north in Siasconset. The street is unpaved, with picket fences around many of the homes. Three homes have figureheads on their roofs or in the front yard.

Details

Descriptive Terms

roads
neighborhoods
figureheads (prow ornaments)
streetscapes
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
photographs

Physical Description

1 carte-de-visite

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Date of Acquisition

1915-11-19

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.1960.0080.002

Acquisition Type

Gift

Places

Siasconset (Nantucket Island, Nantucket county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928 (Photographer)

Material Type

cartes-de-visite (card 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. 112-113

Description Level

Item

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