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| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting California as a summer's destination to be reached by train. The poster features a woman in a vibrant yellow dress overloo... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Alaska, and to get there by way of the the Northern Pacific Railway. Features the artwork of Sydney Laurence, with a depic... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting the S.S. Leviathan as the "World's Largest Ship." The poster depicts an elevated view of a large number of tourists... |
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| Description: | View across shrubs toward a stone historical marker dedicated to Champlain, a Canadian explorer. The marker overlooks the ocean, and a sailboat is visible ... |
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| Description: | View of the beach in front of the Hotel Clarendon, featuring swimmers, benches, and shade-structures made with palm leaves. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A view of a shoreline. Caption reads: "Part of the homestead plat and waterfront. Prudence Island." Along the left is a rock wall, and a house in the dista... |
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| Description: | View of part of an old boat frame, presumably from a shipwreck at Point Judith. A group of people are sitting and standing near the frame of the boat on th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a fisherman's shanty along the shoreline surrounded by rocks. At the shoreline is a man and numerous boats pulled ashore. Caption reads: "... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Castle Rock, located on the coast, with numerous people looking out over the water. Caption reads: "Castle Rock, Marblehead, Mass." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across harbor filled with boats toward small wooden cottages along the far shoreline. A rock wall along the water's edge is in the foreground on the r... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of Yorks Island Harbor and lobster fishing boats in a cove. Caption reads: "Lobster Fleet at Yorks Island Harbor, Isle au Haut, Me." |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a long, curving pier on the bay with large sailboats with sails out on the left side, and smaller boats on the right. |
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| Description: | View across water toward people on a small sailboat on Barnegat Bay, and boathouses and buildings on the far shoreline. |
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| Description: | Etching of the "Attack upon Roanoke Island" by troops landing from naval vessels, after a painting by Chappel. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of village homes on the shores of the bay with docked fishing boats in the foreground. Caption reads, "Marblehead, Mass from Rockmere Point." |
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| Description: | View of Plymouth Street looking towards the waterfront with large trees along the sidewalks. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View of developed beachfront, including roller-coaster, hotels, pier and seagulls. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Boats unloading at Standard Oil Co.'s pier, with a horse, wagon, and a number of men handling lumber and other building materials. |
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| Description: | Women loading cargo onto a U.S. ship at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands by way of baskets balanced on the tops of their heads. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The bow of a large shipwrecked boat, the E.M. Sawyer, tipped up on a rocky shore. |
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