MA Nantucket 1881 – Historic Print
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A window into the past: MA Nantucket 1881, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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MA Nantucket 1881
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Nantucket is an island about 30 miles off the coast, south of Cape Cod, so this view belongs to a place with its own history rather than the mainland peninsula. By 1881 the island's whaling fleet, which had made the town one of the richest in America in the mid-1800s, had largely vanished, and the economy was shifting toward summer visitors arriving by steamer. The record gives only the title and date, so the picture is best read as a glimpse of a town in transition, with its old maritime prosperity giving way to a new life built around tourism.
| Created / published | 1881 |
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| Original scan | 4,384 × 3,152 px · prints to 15 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | MA-Nantucket-1881 |
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