Tenpound Island Light, Gloucester, Massachusetts

albumen print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Masury, Samuel
USA, MA, Gloucester
after 1821
paper
mount 17-9/16 x13-15/16 in.; image 11-3/8 x 9-1/8 in.

Albumen print, part of set (1979.148.1-25) of photos of Massachusetts lighthouses; oval picture on rectangular mount; Tenpound Island Lighthouse; hand printed in pen on mount at bottom "Tenpound Island L.H./ Gloucester harbor Mass. 1821." and embossed in oval below "MASURY'S/ PHOTOGRAPH/ BOSTON." (Samuel Masury, 1818-1874) handwritten in pen on rock in foreground "Masury/ pho." and handwritten on back in pencil "Tenpound Id/ Gloucester Harbor/ Mass./ 1821".

1979.148.7