Marine railway with small schooner and boys, location unknown, undated

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Collection Type

Photography

GUSN

GUSN-189515

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Lantern slides collection
Temporary
Marine railway with small schooner and boys, location unknown, undated
(current record)

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Lantern slides collection
- Temporary
  - Cobbler, Isle Au Haut, Eastern Penobscot Bay, Maine, ca. 1896
  - Lantern slide depicting pilot schooner Varuna with tugboat and sloop, Boston Harbor, Mass., undated
  - Marine railway with small schooner and boys, location unknown, undated (current record)

Description

This lantern slide features a small schooner being hauled into a marine railway. Laborers work on the ship from scaffolding. Two boys prepare to swim in the railway channel.

Details

Descriptive Terms

boys
schooners
laborers
transportation
lantern slides
photographs

Physical Description

1 lantern slide

Collection Code

PC007

Collection Name

Lantern slides collection

Reference Code

PC007.TMP.003

Record Details

Material Type

lantern slides
photographs

Subjects

Marine railways

Accruals Note

W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 63.

Description Level

Item

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