predominant 1880-1889
GUSN-291121
One of a series of caninet cards by the Provincetown photographers Nickerson & Smith showing a line of workers with shovels and wheelbarrows during the hand digging of sections of the Cape Cod Canal.
wheelbarrows
workers
shovels
1 black & white, Cabinet card, 4.5" x 7"
MS028
Nina Heald Webber Cape Cod Canal collection
2012
MS028.04.014.006
Cape Cod Canal (Massachusetts) [canal]
Nickerson, George Hathaway, 1835-1890
Smith, William
Item
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