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Wading Women, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Two women in waders from the rear, c. 1900s...Image number: A31-14a

Map of the island of Nantucket, including Tuckernuck

The island of Nantucket is home to the easternmost site cared for by The Trustees. Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge, located on two peninsulas on the northeast coast of the island, is both a popular destination f... More

Map of that section of the town of Nantucket, which was destroyed by t...

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North Mill, Nantucket Mass., Stereoscope Card

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Historical map of Nantucket - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collect...

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Plan of Sherburne Bluffs, Nantucket, Mass - Vintage map, Norman B. Lev...

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River Queen and Island Home at Steamboat Wharf, 1870s, Nantucket Islan...

Image of the River Queen and steamer Island Home at Steamboat Wharf, Nantucket ,1870s..Image number: SC459

Capt. Joseph Winslow, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Capt. Joseph Winslow in front of the Surfside Lifesaving Station, dressed in lifesaving suit. Francis Life Car in background, c. 1870s...Winslow was the first keeper at Surfside Station, serving from 1874 to 18... More

Rooftop view, 1870s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

View from rooftop of building on Main Street looking over Federal Street, northeast toward the harbor and Brant Point. The Nantucket Atheneum is on the left. Photo by J. Freeman, c. 1870s...Image number: P6440

Map of Surf-Side, the property of the Nantucket Surf-Side Company

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Surfside Lifesaving Station, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Probably shortly after the station opened in 1874, before uniforms were required. ..Image number: P4531

Surfside Lifesaving Station, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Surfside lifesaving station. Note the Francis Metallic Life-Car on the boat ramp. Photo by J. Freeman, c. 1878...Image number: P4534

Map of property of the Surf Side Syndicate, Nantucket, Mass.

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Surfside Lifesaving Station, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Lifesaving crew, c. 1880s. This station was built in 1874 and closed in 1921...Image number: P16232

Leaning against a dory, c. 1880s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

View of three women and four children at the beach,.sitting and leaning on a dory. Beach unknown. c. 1880s...Image number: F4802

India House, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

A yard filled with diversions, c. 1880s...Image number: GPN3903

Tower Views, c. 1880s., Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Tower view from the Unitarian Church, looking south..On the left is Orange Street, right is Fair Street and the Old Mill, c. 1880s...Image number: GPN4252

Bird's eye view of the town of Nantucket in the State of Massachusetts...

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Bird's eye view of the town of Nantucket in the State of Massachusetts...

Perspective map not drawn to scale. "Looking southwest." LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 312 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus., index to points of interest,... More

Umbrellas at Jetties Beach, c. 1890s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

A large crowd at Jetties beach, both spectators and swimmers. Many umbrellas are in view and one carriage is parked on the beach. c. 1890s...Image number: GPN4279

Sconset Gully, Cary's Fish House, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Two men, seated outside a shanty in Codfish Park, one is playing the banjo, and the other the fiddle, c. 1890s...Image number: GPN4062

`Sconset Baseball Club, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Baseball players, 1890s..Image number: P1669 Public domain scan of the vintage baseball memorabilia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Jetties Beach, c. 1890s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Cyanotype of crowd at Jetties Beach. c. 1890s...Image number: P10301

Sankaty Head Lighthouse, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Sankaty Light was a popular destination for island visitors. 1890s, photo by Harry Platt...Image number: PH34-3

Map of Cape Cod and vicinity - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collec...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

The village blacksmith - Public domain portrait print

Blacksmith at work, Nantucket, Mass., 1892(?). J131112 U.S. Copyright Office. "Photo by Henry S. Wyer(?)."

Cyclists on Easton St., Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Bicyclists enjoying the island, 1893...Image number: P7130

Steamship Island Home Stuck in the Ice, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Steamship Island Home stuck in the ice. A dory is being hauled towards the steamer, to transport freight back to shore, 1893...Image number: F3059

Brant Point Lighthouse, black, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

The eight Brant Point Lighthouse was built in 1856 and was painted white around 1895. Photo by J. Freeman, probably taken in the 1880s...Image number: P6409

Nantucket from Brant Point, 1895, Panoramic Photograph

39461A2 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; H. S. Wyer; August 1, 1895.

No 1 Nantucket New South Shoal Lightship, Nantucket Island Massachuset...

Nantucket New South Shoal Lightship No. 11 was on station from 1854 to 1855; No. 1 from 1856 to 1892; No. 54 from 1892 to 1894; No. 5 from 1894 to 1896. New South Shoal lies 20 miles south of Nantucket...Image ... More

Town crier, Nantucket, Massachusetts.. 19th century, Library of Congre...

Photograph shows William "Billy" Clark standing in a doorway holding papers and blowing a horn. Copyright 1897 by H. S. Wyer.

Auction sale of the old mill. 19th century, Library of Congress collec...

Photograph shows a large crowd gathered outside at Nantucket, Massachusetts. Copyright 1897 by H. S. Wyer.

Bicyclist on Adam's Slip, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

A young woman with a bicycle on Adam's Slip, off Steamboat Wharf, c. 1900s. ..Image number: F6497

Bathing Beauties at Jetties Beach, c. 1900s, Nantucket Island Massachu...

Group of four women and one man in bathing costumes, at Jetties Beach. c. 1900s.

Jetties Beach, 1900s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Jetties Beach with a crowd onshore and in the water. Photographer: Henry S. Wyer. c. 1900s...Image number: P15979

Siasconset Casino, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

View of the Siasconset Casino tennis courts with many spectators watching the games, c. 1900s...Image number: p9353

Tourist Baggage, c. 1900s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

The Steamboat Wharf baggage shed, with a large crowd milling through numerous trunks, c. 1900s...Image number: F6490

Nantucket Railroad, c. 1900s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Nantucket Railroad; train leaving for Siasconset on Easy Street. ..Image number: F614

Easy Street, c. 1900., Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Old North Wharf, Steamboat Wharf, and the Brant Point area. Note the railroad station on Steamboat Wharf. Taken between 1896 and 1901...Image number: P16334

Marconi poser and sending station, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. General information about the George Grantha... More

Red Rover?, c. 1900s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Boys and young men in the water at Jetties Beach. c. 1900s...Image number: F13

Instruments inside Marconi power station, Nantucket, Massachusetts.

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Line of Taxis, c. 1900s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Horse-drawn taxis and train at Steamboat Wharf, c. 1900s...Image number: F706

Lifesaving Drill, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

U.S. Lifesaving Service crew on drill, c. 1900s...Image number: P16214

Marconi poser and sending station, Nantucket, Massachusetts.

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Tennis players, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Seven girls, ready to play tennis or badminton, probably in Siasconset...Image number: P12595

Brant Point Lighthouse, white, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

The eight Brant Point Lighthouse was built in 1856 and was painted white around 1895. This photo was probably taken between 1895 and 1901...Image number: PH34-12

Clinton Folger's "Horsemobile", Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Clinton Folger's "Horsemobile" delivering mail, on South Beach Street, at Hayden's Bath House entrance...For nearly twenty years, from 1900 to 1918, Nantucket was the only place in the nation that successfully ... More

Muskeget lifesaving crew, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Lifesavers pulling in a boat, c. 1900s...Image number: P16266 Public domain photograph of people with a small paddle boat, or canoe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Instruments inside Marconi power station, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Crowd at Jetties Beach, c. 1900s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Crowds at Jetties Beach, with a few people in bathing costumes. Note the baby carriage in the center of the image. c. 1900s...Image number: P3498

Tower View, 1900s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Looking northwest from the Unitarian Church, also known as the south tower. Main Street runs through the center of the image. The large building on the left is the Atlantic Hall. Academy Hill school is in the b... More

Brant Point Lighthouse, white, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

The eight Brant Point Lighthouse was built in 1856 and was painted white around 1895. This photo was probably taken between 1895 and 1901...Image number: P11713

Nantucket Railroad Engine "No 1", 1901, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Nantucket Railroad Engine "No 1", leaving Steamboat Wharf via Easy Street on its first run on July 5, 1901, bedecked with flags for Independence Day.. .Image number: GPN3921

Nantucket Shoals Lightship no. 66, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

1904, photo Alanson S. Barney...Lightships were "floating lighthouses." Between 1820 and 1983, 116 lightships were established by the U.S. Government...Image number: P14137

Family at Jetties Beach, 1906, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

A group of people at Jetties Beach, some in bathing suits. Label states: "Mother in the black suit with white collar, and her sister, Aunt Fan, in all white dress. Fat Aunt Fan never appeared in a bathing suit.... More

Surfside Lifesaving Station, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

1906..Image number: A11-32

Nantucket Harbor, Massachusetts., panoramic postcard

Postcard shows a harbor of small boats and sailboats, a pier on the right with a woman in a long white dress shaded by an umbrella, large homes and lighthouse across the bay. F70873 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 5... More

Map of Cape Cod and vicinity - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collec...

Surfside Life Saving Station, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

The Surfside Life Saving Station, with two boats on wheeled cradles, c. 1910s...Image number: P16233

The Bug and the Birdcage, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

The Bug and the Birdcage. Two railroad cars with passengers, stopped at the head of North Wharf on Easy Street. ..From 1907 until 1913 a tiny gasoline-powered car and its companion baggage car (affectionately k... More

The Bug and the Birdcage, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

The Bug and the Birdcage. From 1907 until 1913 a tiny gasoline-powered car and its companion baggage car (affectionately known as the "Bug" and "Birdcage," respectively) plied the rails to 'Sconset, including w... More

Muskeget Lifesaving Crew, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Lifesaving station captain and crew from Muskeget, with some of their equipment. Includes Capt. Albert Rohdin (d. 1935), standing second from right is Arthur P. Dunham; far right standing is Erastus Chapel; sit... More

New Railroad Cars, c. 1910s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Nantucket railroad: arrival of new cars. Arrival and unloading of the the new railroad cars, watched by a large crowd, c. 1910s...Image number: F1376

Captain Albert Rohdin, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Life Saving Captain Albert Rohdin, of the Muskeget Station, 1910. Rohdin was reassigned to the Surfside Lifesaving Station in 1915, where he would serve until it closed in 1921; he was then reassigned to Coskat... More

Sleigh on Main Street, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

View of a horse drawn sleigh, pulled by two horses, stopped at Main and Federal Streets, 1911...Image number: F4306

Iced in Steamer, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Steamer Nantucket in ice off Brant Point in February.1912...Image number: P16109

"Motor Vehicles are Excluded from this Street," 1913, Nantucket Island...

Orison Hull (left) and Joseph Terry posting an automobile exclusion notice on a tree at the corner of Federal and Broad Streets. The notice reads: Motor vehicles are excluded from this street, 1913...Image number: P14804

Tower View, 1915, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

View from the Unitarian Church tower overlooking Old North Wharf, Steamboat Wharf and Brant Point. Note the end of the railroad tracks on Steamboat Wharf, left center. Several houses on the Easton Street shore ... More

Sunday School Picnic Ladies, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Close up of five women at the Congregational Church Sunday School Picnic held at the fair grounds. Seated on a bench, l to r: Eunice Brooks, Ann W. Chase, Elizabeth Davis (wife of James), Lydia Bunker Gardner,... More

Muskeget Lifesaving Station, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

1917..Image number: P16230

Look in the sky at the sound of the bell. Four hydroplanes and an aero...

Easy Street, 1918, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

View looking northeast over Easy Street basin shows cars and tracks of the Nantucket Railroad...Elevated view of the Steamship Wharf railroad station, Adam's Slip (right), Brant Point Light, the Coast Guard sta... More

Brant Point Seaplanes, 1918, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

A crowd gathered at Brant Point to see the first landing of aircraft, two seaplanes. 17 April 1918..Image number: 4286

Breeches Buoy, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Man riding breeches buoy at picnic, 1920s...Image number: P1755

Sunbathers, 1920, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Jetties Beach, 20 August 1920. Sunbathers, with a few swimmers and the jetties in the background...Image number: F4673

Mason's Picnic, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Masons picnic, man eating melon other watching, 1920s...Image number: P1751

Siasconset Baseball Team, Jr., Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Baseball team of unidentified children, c. 1920s..Image number: A21-7a

Nantucket Massachusetts. training ship - Public domain image of steams...

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Siasconset Beach House Hotel Staff, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Five young women and one young man in bathing suits, summer staff at the Beach House Hotel in Siasconset. 1929...Mabel Peterson Bristol, front center..Image number: P21664

Cross Rip Lightship, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

c. 1930s..Image number: P16269

Great Point Lighthouse, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Great Point Lighthouse and keeper's house, c. 1930s...The first lighthouse at Great Point was wooden, built in 1784, with Captain Paul Pinkham as the keeper. It burnt down in 1816, and this stone tower was buil... More

Tower view, 1930s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Tower view of downtown Nantucket, 1930s, showing Main Street, the Skipper Restaurant, and Brant Point...Image number: P21975

Brant Point Lighthouse, c. 1930s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

The ninth Brant Point Lighthouse was built in 1901 and remains there today. ..Image number: SC628-8

Picnic, 1931, Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Group of women on the beach in casual attire having a picnic, summer 1931, third bend on Coatue. ..Left to right: Shirley Carpenter, Nettie Carpenter, Kay Bruce, Kay Davidson; Miss Williams (seated). ..Image nu... More

First Surfboard on Nantucket, 1932., Nantucket Island Massachusetts

Constance Viola Greene Haroldson (1906-1996?) posing with a surfboard on Siasconset beach. 1932...Image number: A72-4

Rescom Taber House, 45 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Significance: A typical Nantucket house; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-225 Survey number: HABS MA-1040 Building/struct... More

Point Breeze Hotel, 77 Easton Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Survey number: HABS MA-1333 Public domain photograph of a hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Christopher Hussey House, 12 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Count...

Significance: An eighteenth century house, among the first to be built on Wesco Hill; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this struct... More

Charles F. Hussey House, 37 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County,...

Significance: Example of a typical early nineteenth century Nantucket house; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-229 Survey n... More

Seth Folger House, 26 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Significance: One of the first dwellings built in the early eighteenth century in this new location of the town; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note mate... More

Obediah Wood House, 17 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Significance: Typical example of the large turn of the eighteenth century house; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-239 Surv... More

Andrew Myrick House, 16 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Significance: A mid-eighteenth century house; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-252 Survey number: HABS MA-1067... More

Lower Main Street, South Side (Buildings), 12 & 14 Main Street, Nantuc...

Significance: It now contains a good example of the rebuilding and remodeling of commercial properties in 1968 to enhance the historic area and economic development of Nantucket. Survey number: HABS MA-954

Captain William Stubbs House, 15 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Co...

Significance: A typical Nantucket four-bay house with off-center door and chimney; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-240 Su... More

Gorham Macy House, 39 India Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Significance: Example of vernacular Greek revival domestic architecture; part of the India Street Neighborhood Study (MASS-1013). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-228 Survey numbe... More

Joshua Bunker House, 25 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Significance: Greatly enlarged and altered typical Nantucket house; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-256 Surve... More

William Nichols House, Nantucket, Nantucket County, MA

Significance: A particularly fine example of the typical Nantucket house; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-244 ... More

Benjamin Coggeshall House, 8 Orange Street, Nantucket, Nantucket Count...

Significance: Handsome Greek Revival home of a famous Nantucket whaler; part of the Orange and Union Streets Neighborhood Study (MASS-1014). Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-247 S... More

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