Eastern Point Light, Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1865

albumen print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Masury, Samuel
USA, MA, Gloucester
Circa 1865
paper
mount 13-11/16 x17-1/8 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; Eastern Point Lighthouse, three groups of people standing in front; handwritten in pencil on mount below "Eastern Point" and below embossed in oval "MASURY'S/ PHOTO GRAPH/ BOSTON." Samuel Masury, 1818-1874. Hand printed in pen below "Eastern Point L.H./ Gloucester harbor Mass. 1831." Handwritten in pencil on back "Eastern Point/ Gloucester Harbor/ 1831 Mass." Ca. 1865.

1979.148.19