1887
Library and Archives: Geographic: Large: Mass.: Martha's Vineyard: Chilmark: Gay Head Light: Unmounted
GUSN-189804
A group of tourists stand in front of the Gay Head Lighthouse on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The lighthouse tower is topped with a sperm whale weathervane, and the keeper can be seen on the tower balcony.
weathervanes
tourism
lighthouses
group portraits
exterior views
events
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Project number HNE0072
1 photograph
PC001
General photographic collection
1925-03-01
PC001.02.01.USMA.1740.0080.001
8 x 10 (HxW)(inches)
Gay Head (Martha's Vineyard, Dukes county, Massachusetts) [cape]
Chilmark (Martha's Vineyard, Dukes county, Massachusetts)
Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928 (Photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
African American men
African American boys
Included in the Boston African Americana Project.
W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 122.
Item
Library and Archives: Geographic: Large: Mass.: Martha's Vineyard: Chilmark: Gay Head Light: Unmounted
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