Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1920 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1920, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Visiting ships at Provincetown, Mass., three hundredth anniversary of the landing of the pilgrims; photo taken from the deck of the English ship "Constance", August 29, 1920
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Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1920
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Provincetown in 1920 was a fishing port at the tip of Cape Cod that was also becoming known as an art colony. Painters had gathered there since the Cape Cod School of Art, which Charles Hawthorne ran in town from 1899, and the Provincetown Players had been staging new plays since 1915, with Eugene O'Neill's early one-acts among them. Fishing still anchored the local economy, with Portuguese and Yankee crews working the wharves, though the boats were smaller and the catch less reliable than in the town's earlier decades. The national ban on alcohol had taken effect that January, and the seaside town's shifting mix of fishermen, artists and summer visitors made it an unusual place for the decade's new laws to meet local habit.
| Created / published | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Creator | pendleton & owens |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Massachusetts |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,104 × 1,056 px · prints to 17 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Visiting ships at Provincetown, Mass., three hundredth anniversary of the landing of the pilgrims; photo taken from the deck of the English ship "Constance", August 29, 1920 |
| Reference | MA Provincetown 1 1920 |
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