Bird Island Light, Sippican Harbor, Massachusetts

albumen print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Masury, Samuel
USA, MA, Sippican Harbor; USA, MA, Buzzards Bay
after 1819
paper
mount 17-5/8 x14-1/16 in.; image 9-1/8 x 11-3/8 in.

Albumen print, part of set (1979.148.1-25) of photos of Massachusetts lighthouses; oval picture on rectangular mount; Bird Island Lighthouse; hand printed in pen on mount at bottom "Bird Island L.H./ Buzzard Bay Mass. 1819" and embossed in oval below "MASURY'S/ PHOTOGRAPH/ BOSTON." Samuel Masury, 1818-1874. Handwritten in red pencil on back "Bird Island: and in black pencil "Mass/ 1819".

1979.148.12