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Aerial views of New England harbors and coastal communities

Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1930-1940

Location Note

Album 128a

GUSN

GUSN-194490

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Description

Includes approximately 100 8 x 10 aerial photographs taken in Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island and New York coastal communities. Also included are photographs of the S.S. Bear (Byrd Expedition, Newfoundland), as it departed from Boston. Other localities represented are Rockport, Annisquam, Gloucester and Cape Cod. Majority of photographs have been identified. Photographs taken by aerial photographer Thomas Francis Hartley, whose firm Hartley and Arnold maintained offices at the Boston Airport (later General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport) in the 1930s and 1940s.

Details

Descriptive Terms

boats
sailboats
coastal towns
harbors
aerial views
aerial photographs
expeditions
photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
memorabilia

Additional Identification Number

album 128A

Physical Description

4 folders

Collection Code

PC009

Collection Name

Photograph albums collection

Date of Acquisition

1979

Reference Code

PC009.128A

Acquisition Type

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of T.F. Hartley, 1979

Places

Kennebunkport (York county, Maine)
Nantucket (Nantucket Island, Nantucket county, Massachusetts)
Boothbay Harbor (Lincoln county, Maine) [bay]
Scituate (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Block Island island (Washington county, Rhode Island) [island]
Biddeford (York county, Maine)
Cape Porpoise (York county, Maine) [cape]
Plymouth (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Green Harbor (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Marshfield (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Hadley Harbor (Elizabeth Islands, Dukes county, Massachusetts) [bay]
Woods Hole (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)
Elizabeth Islands (Dukes county, Massachusetts) [island group]
Cuttyhunk (Cuttyhunk Island, Elizabeth Islands, Dukes county, Massachusetts)
Menemsha (Martha's Vineyard, Dukes county, Massachusetts)
Martha's Vineyard (Dukes county, Massachusetts) [island]
Edgartown (Martha's Vineyard, Dukes county, Massachusetts)
Vineyard Haven (Martha's Vineyard, Dukes county, Massachusetts)
Wickford (Washington county, Rhode Island)
Point Judith (Washington county, Rhode Island) [cape]
Fishers Island (Suffolk county, New York state) [island]
Montauk (Suffolk county, New York state)
New Rochelle (Westchester county, New York state)
City Island (Bronx, New York City, New York state) [neighborhood]
Newfoundland island (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) [island]
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Cape Cod (Barnstable county, Massachusetts) [cape]
Manchester (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Ipswich (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Gloucester (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Essex (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Rockport (Essex county, Massachusetts)
Annisquam (Essex county, Massachusetts) [river]

Record Details

Originator

Hartley, Thomas Francis (Photographer)

Material Type

photograph albums
black-and-white photographs
memorabilia

Other Organizations

Hartley and Arnold

Accruals Note

Photographs have been removed from albums and sorted into folders.

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Album 128a

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