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View from the water: Atlantic House; Public Baths

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1880-1900

GUSN

GUSN-318788

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Description

View from the beach looking up toward the Atlantic Hotel and the Public Baths. The beach stretches for most of the foreground with a hill rising sharply out of the flat plane of the beach. The buildings mostly sit on the hill. One person is visible on the beach.

Details

Descriptive Terms

buildings (structures)
hotels (public accommodations)
public baths
People
beaches
hills
negatives (photographic)

Additional Identification Number

Plate number 69

Physical Description

1 glass plate negative, 6.5"x8.5"

Collection Code

PC059

Collection Name

J. H. Williams collection

Reference Code

PC059.069

Places

Nantasket Beach (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Williams, J.H. (Photographer)

Material Type

negatives (photographic)

Other People

Williams, J.H.

Description Level

Item

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