Ye Olde Curiosity Shop – Historic Reproduction
![Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, [Nantucket, 19--] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/14/14a8683b1d5a-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic print of Ye Olde Curiosity Shop brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
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Few places in New England make their past as visible as Nantucket, and this etching turns that attention to a shop that sold the island's history back to visitors. The title, *Ye Olde Curiosity Shop*, uses the quaint spelling that was popular in the early twentieth century, after the whaling economy had faded and tourists began arriving to buy souvenirs, scrimshaw and sea relics. The print is signed in pencil by hand, which suggests the artist's direct involvement in this impression. The record gives only "19--" as the date, so the exact year is unrecorded, but the subject places it in that later period of Nantucket's reinvention.
| Created / published | [Nantucket, 19--] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching ; 20.4 x 33.5 cm. |
| Notes | Signed in pencil. DLC Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 223. LC purchase. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 971 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146659 |
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