undated
Small photographs-Subjects-Transportation
GUSN-380847
6 small black-and-white photographs depicting steamships and dock areas of the Nantasket Beach Steamboat Company. Photographs are undated.
ferries
marine terminals
tourism
travel
steamboats
black-and-white photography
photographs
black-and-white photography
6 Black-and-white photographs ; 2.5 x 3.5 inches
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.03.02.0400.0450.001
6 small black-and-white photographs depicting steamships and dock areas of the Nantasket Beach Steamboat Company.
Gift
Boston Harbor (Massachusetts) [harbor]
Hull (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
Nantasket Beach (Plymouth County, Massachusetts)
photographs
black-and-white photography
Transportation
Ferries
Dock
Photographs were rehoused in a mylar enclosure for long term preservation.
Item
Small photographs-Subjects-Transportation
Day trips between Boston and the far famed Nantasket Beach and historic Plymouth, Nantasket Beach Steamboat Company, Rowe's Wharf, 340 Atlantic Avenue, junction of Broad and High Streets, office, 7 Rowe's Wharf, Boston, Mass.
Nantasket Beach and Plymouth, Nantasket Beach Steamboat Co., Boston, Mass., 1916
Leaflet advertising the auction of assets of the Nantasket Beach Steamboat Co., 1934
The steamships of the Nantasket Beach Steamboat Line were a popular method of transportation in the early 1900s. They provided quick and easy routes between Boston, Nantasket Beach in Hull, and other destinations around Boston Harbor and the Massachusetts South Shore.
On Thanksgiving Day in 1929, six of the company's steamers were docked for the winter at Nantasket's Steamboat Wharf (Nantasket Pier) when a large fire broke out and destroyed 5 of the steamers -- the Nantasket, Mary Chilton, Old Colony, Rose Standish and Betty Alden. The Mayflower was pulled to safety and survived the fire.
The assets of the company were sold in bankruptcy proceedings in April, 1934.
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