Wrecked Bark Frances

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Collection Type

Photography

GUSN

GUSN-188200

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General photographic collection
- Stereo views
  - Subjects
    - Shipping - Sailing vessels - wrecks
      - Wreck of the William F. Marshall near shore, Nantucket, Mass., March 9, 1877
      - Wrecked Bark Frances (current record)

Description

The stereograph depicts the "Frances", after her wreck, half sunk. A crowd of tourists are visiting the wreck as it sits right at the shoreline.

Details

Descriptive Terms

shipwrecks
tourism
sand
sailing ships
events
stereographs
photographs

Physical Description

1 stereo view

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.04.02.4750.002

Places

Provincetown (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Goss, F. Percy (Printer)

Material Type

stereographs
photographs

Other People

Nickerson, George Hathaway, 1835-1890

Accruals Note

W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 93 Original in either: Stereo Views - Provincetown, Ma - wreck "Frances" OR Stereo Views - Subjects - Shipping - Sailing vessels - Wrecks

Description Level

Item

Publisher Series

Cape Cod views

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