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Chequesset Inn porch scene, Wellfleet, Mass., 1913

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1913

GUSN

GUSN-189508

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Description

This photograph depicts the porch of the Chequesset Inn in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Men, women and children sit in oversized rocking chairs chatting, reading or watching the scenery.

Details

Descriptive Terms

porches
rocking chairs
leisure
inns
commercial buildings
chairs (furniture forms)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Date of Acquisition

1932-07-04

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.3200.0020.001

Image Dimensions

6.75 x 8.5 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Wellfleet (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

New England News Company (Photographic studio)

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. 94.

Description Level

Item

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