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Coal wharves, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1907

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1907

GUSN

GUSN-189512

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Description

An image of the coal wharves in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Steam boats and large sailing ships share the docks, factories line the shore and a ferry slips through the harbor.

Details

Descriptive Terms

wharves
ferries
harbors
coal
transportation
ports
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USNH.1380.0080.001

Image Dimensions

8 x 10 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Portsmouth (Rockingham county, New Hampshire)

Record Details

Originator

Peabody, Henry G. (Henry Greenwood), 1855-1951 (Photographer)

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. 33Original also in Peabody Album 27.

Description Level

Item

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