Sankaty Head Light, Nantucket, Massachusetts

albumen print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Masury, Samuel
USA, MA, Nantucket, Sankaty Head
paper
mount 13-7/8 x17-3/16 in.; image 9-3/4 x 11-15/16 in.

Albumen print, part of set (1979.148.1-25) of photos of Massachusetts lighthouses; oval picture on rectangular mount; Sankaty Head Lighthouse, horse-drawn cart and two men in front (out of focus); handwritten in pencil on mount below picture at left "Sankaty Head" and embossed in oval below "MASURY'S/ PHOTOGRAPH/ BOSTON." Samuel Masury, 1818-1874. Hand printed in pen below "Sankaty Head L.H./ Nantucket Island. 65 ft." Handwritten in pencil on back "Sankaty Head/ Nantucket/ Mass".

1979.148.22