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1905
Postcards - Massachusetts - Newburyport.
GUSN-191155
Black and white postcard depicts a row of cottages or "shanties" near the shore. Men and boys, identified as "clam diggers," sit on benches outside the shanties. The road going through the community includes trolley tracks and clam baskets can be seen in front of several of the shanties.
laborers
men (male humans)
boys
shanties (songs)
postcards
photographs
Postcard number A21664
1 postcard
PC001
General photographic collection
1919-07-01
PC001.03.01.TMP.033
Gift
Joppa (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Newburyport (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Rotograph Co. (New York) (Publisher)
postcards
photographs
Clams
Clamming
W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 41.
Item
Postcards - Massachusetts - Newburyport.
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