Geographic / Me. / Biddeford Pool / Modern: Baldwin Coolidge Photos / Large: Unmounted.
GUSN-196006
Members of the U.S. Life-Saving Service practice rescue operations using a rope to haul a stranded person to shore at the Fletcher's Neck Life-Saving Station, built in 1874, in Biddeford, Maine. A man in a life preserver is suspended by ropes from the roof of station. The Stick-style wood frame boathouse is ornamented in various manners, including carved dolphins in the lower corners of the gable.
gable roofs
boathouses
Stick Style
frame construction
seashores
life preservers
surfboats
life-saving stations
line-throwing guns
life-saving
government
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
DigitalID 001065
AccessID 1354
Other identifier HNEDID-001065
1 photograph
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.02.01.USME.0210.0020.006
ca. 1887
Biddeford (York county, Maine)
Fletcher Neck (cape)
Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928 (photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
United States. Life-Saving Service
Biddeford Pool (Me.)
Ocean Avenue (Biddeford, Me.)
rope carts
United States. Life-Saving Service -- officials and employees
Item
Geographic / Me. / Biddeford Pool / Modern: Baldwin Coolidge Photos / Large: Unmounted.
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