Train in front of Sea View House, Steamboat Wharf

Description (Brief):

black and white stereograph mounted on yellow cardstock; printed on verso "Photographed and Published / by / S.F. Adams, Oak Bluffs, Mass."; steam powered rail engine with three cars stopped in front of a large five-level building (hotel); two men standing next to train and two men standing on train which i on elevated tracks, tracks built into a pier leading away from hotel

Date Made: ca 1872-1876

Maker: Adams, Stephen F.

Place Made: United States: Massachusetts, Martha's Vineyard, Oak BluffsAssociated Place: United States: Massachusetts, New Bedford

Subject: TrainRailroadshotelsTourismMen

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Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 2012.3033.0660Nonaccession Number: 2012.3033Catalog Number: 2012.3033.0660

Object Name: stereograph

Physical Description: paper (overall material)Measurements: overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-489f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1899780

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