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View of Plum Island trolley line with cottages and boardwalk, Plum Island, Mass., undated

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Collection Type

  • Photography

GUSN

GUSN-191107

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Description

A long view of trolley tracks surrounded by cottages, a boardwalk and sea grass in the and. A trolley car approaches the boardwalk where a couple waits.

Details

Descriptive Terms

trolley cars
boardwalks
cottages
sand
dwellings
transportation
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Physical Description

2 photographic prints

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.2030.0220.002

Places

Plum Island Point (Essex county, Massachusetts) [cape]

Record Details

Originator

Thomson & Thomson (Boston, Mass.) (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. 43.

Description Level

Item

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