West Chop Light, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
albumen print
PHOTOGRAPHSMasury, Samuel
USA, MA, Martha's Vineyard, Oak Bluffs; USA, MA, Martha's Vineyard, Holmes Hole Harbor
after 1817
paper
mount 14 x17-3/4 in.; image 9-3/4 x 12 in.
Albumen print, part of set (1979.148.1-25) of photos of Massachusetts lighthouses; oval picture on rectangular mount; Holmes' Hole Lighthouse, two men standing in front of lighthouse, one man in tower; embossed in oval on mount at bottom "MASURY'S/ PHOTOGRAPH/ BOSTON." Samuel Masury, 1818-1874. Hand printed in pen below "Holmes' Hole L.H./ Entrance to Holmes' Hole Harbor/ 1817"; handwritten in red pencil on back "Holmes Hab, West Chop" and in black pencil "Mass. 1817".
1979.148.17