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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1904-1910

Location Note

Library and Archives: Geographic: Large: Mass.: Nantucket: Ancient: Unmounted

GUSN

GUSN-189789

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Description

A group of people, mostly children, watch an organ grinder and his monkey in front of the Ye Olde Curiosity Shop on Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Details

Descriptive Terms

stores
bicycles
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

Project number HNE0021

Physical Descrption

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.1960.0050.001

Image Dimensions

8 1/8 x 10 1/16 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Nantucket (Nantucket Island, Nantucket county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Thomson & Thomson (Boston, Mass.) (Photographic studio)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Subjects

African Americans
Children
Organ grinders
Street entertainers
Street Scene

Accruals Note

Included in the Boston African Americana Project.

Variant Title

Group of people around an organ grinder and his monkey, Nantucket, Mass.

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Library and Archives: Geographic: Large: Mass.: Nantucket: Ancient: Unmounted

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