Train in front of Sea View House, Steamboat Wharf
Train in front of Sea View House, Steamboat Wharf
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- 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
- Object Name
- stereograph
- date made
- ca 1872-1876
- maker
- Adams, Stephen F.
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Martha's Vineyard, Oak Bluffs
- associated place
- United States: Massachusetts, New Bedford
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm
- ID Number
- 2012.3033.0660
- nonaccession number
- 2012.3033
- catalog number
- 2012.3033.0660
- subject
- Train
- Railroads
- hotels
- Tourism
- Men
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- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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