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Plymouth in 1622 / W.L. Williams. – Vintage Print

Plymouth in 1622 / W.L. Williams., Plymouth, Mass. : A.S. Burbank, [c1901(?)] — vintage postcard
Plymouth in 1622 / W.L. Williams., Plymouth, Mass. : A.S. Burbank, [c1901(?)]. Vintage postcard from the Cape Cod National Seashore collection.

(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 vintage postcard captures Plymouth in 1622 / W.L. Williams. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Plymouth in 1622 / W.L. Williams.

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Painted rather than photographed, this view shows Plymouth as W.L. Williams pictured it for the year 1622, about two years after the Mayflower landing. The colonists were then still building modest houses of timber and thatch, and the settlement was guarded by a palisade and a small fort on the hill above the harbor. A.S. Burbank of Plymouth reproduced the painting as a color picture postcard around 1901, part of a wave of souvenir cards that drew on the town's Pilgrim heritage. The card is worth noticing both for the reconstructed dwellings it shows and for what it reveals about how early Plymouth was packaged for visitors.

Created / publishedPlymouth, Mass. : A.S. Burbank, [c1901(?)]
Medium1 photomechanical print (postcard): color.
GenrePostcards 1900-1910.Halftone photomechanical prints Color 1900-1910.
NotesReproduction of painting by W.L. Williams. Copyright by A.S. Burbank. No. 13997.
SubjectsDwellings--Massachusetts--Plymouth--1620-1630. Plymouth (Mass.)--1620-1630.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,429 × 1,152 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218834

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