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Salt haying, Polpis, Nantucket

Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Postcards - Polpis, Nantucket, MA

GUSN

GUSN-191271

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Description

In Polpis on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, a farmer collects cut hay in an ox cart in a salt marsh.

Details

Descriptive Terms

hay wagons
farmers
hay
marshes
agriculture
postcards
photographs

Physical Description

1 postcard

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.03.01.TMP.043

Places

Polpis (Nantucket Island, Nantucket county, Massachusetts)
Nantucket Island (Nantucket county, Massachusetts) [island]

Record Details

Originator

Wyer, H.S. (Photographer)

Material Type

postcards
photographs

Subjects

Oxen

Accruals Note

W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 30.

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Postcards - Polpis, Nantucket, MA

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