Research Catalog
Stereoscopic views of Nantucket, Massachusetts [graphic]
- Title
- Stereoscopic views of Nantucket, Massachusetts [graphic] / by J. Freeman.
- Author
- Freeman, J. (Josiah),
- Publication
- Nantucket, Mass. : J. Freeman, 1867?-1890?
- Electronic Resource
- Image(s) via NYPL Digital Gallery
Details
- Additional Authors
- Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
- Description
- 63 stereographs (photoprints) : albumen, b&w; 88x178mm. or smaller.
- Subjects
- Photoprints
- Stereographs
- Albumen photoprints
- Group portraits
- Women
- Windmills > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Whaling > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Sightseers > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Shipwrecks > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Streets > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Photographica
- Nantucket Historical Association
- Beaches > Massachusetts > Nankucket
- Carriages & coaches > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Carts & wagons > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Churches > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Croquet > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Dories (Boats)
- Dwellings > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Eccentrics and eccentricities
- Fishermen
- Gardens > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Historic buildings > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Hotels & taverns > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Lifesaving > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Lighthouses > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Letter carriers
- Monuments & memorials > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Piers & wharves > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Sailings ships
- Schools > Massachusetts > Nantucket
- Ship figureheads
- Genre/Form
- Albumen photoprints.
- Group portraits.
- Photoprints.
- Stereographs.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Cite As (note)
- Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
- Call Number
- MFY Dennis Coll 90-F265
- Author
- Freeman, J. (Josiah), photographer.
- Title
- Stereoscopic views of Nantucket, Massachusetts [graphic] / by J. Freeman.
- Imprint
- Nantucket, Mass. : J. Freeman, 1867?-1890?
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at division indicated.
- Summary
- Views of Nantucket: general and street views incl. commercial buildings, homes with gardens visible, streets with wagons and carriages, groups of people posing in front of buildings including children in front of the Tallant School or Fair St. Academy; a group pausing during a croquet game; the "oldest House" (Jethro Coffin house), showing shingled exterior and catslide roof, the Old Mill (later owned by the Nantucket Historical Association; the round top mill; the Civil War monument; Wauwinet House from its dock; Siasconset including a general view, houses along the bluffs, men and a child in a yard with a ship's figurehead; Capt. Wm. Baxter in his wagon, delivering mail to Siasconset; cliffs and the beach at Sankaty, the Sankaty lighthouse; another lighthouse; the "Hermit of Quidnet" (Frederick Parker), one view showing his home, another showing him seated in rocking chair outside his door reading; whaling: "cutting in" the whale at the Commerical wharf, 1870; school of blackfish on shore, one view showing boys standing on the carcasses; a view of man in protective clothes in front of lifesaving station, boat and equipment visible through door; views of shipwrecks, including the "W.F. Marshall," the Minmanuett," showing spectators sitting on bags of coffee (its cargo) on the shore, and wagons and carriages on the shore near a wreck; view of the remains of the "Warren Sawyer" in the surf; a group of women sitting around a table with a stereo-viewer on it. Some views duplicated.
- Cite As:
- Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Photographica.
- Added Author
- Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views.
- Research Call Number
- MFY Dennis Coll 90-F265