A visit to the wharf, Nantucket / E.W. Jenney, del. 1930 Apr. 10th. – Antique Print
(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 rare antique lithograph captures A visit to the wharf, Nantucket / E.W. Jenney, del. 1930 Apr. 10th. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A visit to the wharf, Nantucket / E.W. Jenney, del. 1930 Apr. 10th.
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Women in period dress gather on the waterfront in this lithograph, A visit to the wharf, Nantucket, which places a social outing beside a working harbor. Nantucket built much of its nineteenth-century prosperity on whaling, and its wharves were where oil and cargo came ashore, so a leisurely visit there shows how the island's maritime life intersected with town life. E.W. Jenney is credited as the delineator. The catalog record carries a 1930 date, but its subject headings place the scene between 1850 and 1880, the decades after the island's whaling heyday.
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 36 x 51 cm (image), 51.2 x 67.8 cm (sheet) |
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| Notes | 1930 Apr. 10th. |
| Subjects | Women--Social life--Massachusetts--Nantucket Island--1850-1880. Women--Clothing & dress--Massachusetts--Nantucket Island--1850-1880. Piers & wharves--Massachusetts--Nantucket Harbor--1850-1880. Waterfronts--Massachusetts--Nantucket Harbor--1850-1880. Harbors--Massachusetts--Nantucket Harbor--1850-1880. City & town life--Massachusetts--Nantucket Island--1850-1880. Nantucket Harbor (Mass.) Nantucket Island (Mass.) |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,040 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111413 |
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