Cliff Beacons, Nantucket, Massachusetts, circa 1865

albumen print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Masury, Samuel
USA, MA, Nantucket
Circa 1865
paper
mount 14-1/8 x17-5/8 in.; image 9-1/8 x 11-3/8 in.

Albumen print, part of set (1979.148.1-25) of photos of Mass. lighthouses; oval picture on rectangular mount; Cliff Beacons, two clapboard towers of different heights; embossed in oval on mount at bottom "MASURY'S/ PHOTOGRAPH/ BOSTON." Samuel Masury, 1818-1874. Hand printed in pen below "Cliff Beacons/ Nantucket harbor Mass." and handwritten in pencil on back "Cliff Beacons/ Nantucket/ Mass." Circa 1865.

1979.148.3