1880s
GUSN-189795
The wreck "City of Columbus" left a whale boat sitting on a rocky beach below the Gay Head cliffs on Martha's Vineyard. Five men stand in and around the broken hull and direct themselves toward the camera.
boats
whaling vessels
events
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
1 photograph
PC001
General photographic collection
1918-09-17
PC001.02.01.USMA.1740.0070.001
5 x 8 (HxW)(inches)
Gay Head (Martha's Vineyard, Dukes county, Massachusetts) [cape]
Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928 (Photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Whaleboats
Lifesaving
W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg.123.
Item
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