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A heavy rectangular board, with a heavy three-part molding frame. Painted on both sides: one side has two large white houses with two sailboats and a side wheel steamer, "Liberty" in front of a house. On the reverse is an engine and string of carriages entering a station; ships in the foreground. Colors used are white, green and lemon yellow.
shop signs
wood (plant material)
oil paint (paint)
buildings (structures)
sailboats
scenes (depictions)
steam engines (engines)
steamboats
Wood
Oil Paint
Steamboat
Sailboat
Unidentified Building
Steam Engine
Scenic
Sign, Trade
In chartreuse paint, across the base of the picture on both sides is: J. BARTLETT .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Liberty
Unknown
42 1/2 x 35 x 3 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1061
New Hampshire (United States)
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