SS ISLAND HOME
SS ISLAND HOME
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- Description (Brief)
- black and white stereograph mounted on yellow cardstock; photograph by J. Freeman; printed on recto "J. Freeman, / Nantucket."; image of a sidewheel steamship, ISLAND HOME, docked with small, two-masted sailboat in front of it; the SS ISLAND HOME initially provided ferry service between Nantucket and Hyannis; later service was provided between Woods Hole and Nantucket; it operated as a ferry between 1855 and ca. 1895, eventually damaged and sank in 1902
- Object Name
- stereograph
- date made
- 1855-1895
- associated place
- United States: Massachusetts, Nantucket Island, Nantucket
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm
- ID Number
- 2012.3033.0571
- nonaccession number
- 2012.3033
- catalog number
- 2012.3033.0571
- subject
- Steamships
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- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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