Two women in waders from the rear, c. 1900s...Image number: A31-14a
Image of the River Queen and steamer Island Home at Steamboat Wharf, Nantucket ,1870s..Image number: SC459
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
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
Probably shortly after the station opened in 1874, before uniforms were required. ..Image number: P4531
Surfside lifesaving station. Note the Francis Metallic Life-Car on the boat ramp. Photo by J. Freeman, c. 1878...Image number: P4534
Lifesaving crew, c. 1880s. This station was built in 1874 and closed in 1921...Image number: P16232
View of the Mary H. Nye, Dry and Fancy Goods shop, on Centre Street, with Mary posed in the doorway, c. 1880s...In the early and middle years of the 19th century, the preponderance of women merchants, selling e More
View of three women and four children at the beach,.sitting and leaning on a dory. Beach unknown. c. 1880s...Image number: F4802
Interior, Mary Nye shop on "Petticoat Row" showing three women sitting in shop with souvenirs, andirons, china, etc. Photo by Henry S. Wyer, c. 1880s...In the early and middle years of the 19th century, the pre More
Interior of "La Petite Cottage: Dry and Fancy Goods and Wyer's View & Souvenirs." in Siasconset. c 1880s..Image numbers: GPN4352
A yard filled with diversions, c. 1880s...Image number: GPN3903
Photographer Harry Platt, Nantucket photographer, standing in the doorway of his store, most likely on Centre Street, c. 1880s...Image number: P14431
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
Interior of a Petticoat Row shop, with three shop keepers standing below a large Bric-A-Brac sign. The shop offers general household goods. Note the Nantucket baskets on the left. c. 1880s..In the early and mid More
The Boston Store, at 54 Main Street, offering dry and fancy goods for sale, with a group of women and two children posed in front. Most likely, several of the women are employees of the store. Note the Nantucke More
Two men, seated outside a shanty in Codfish Park, one is playing the banjo, and the other the fiddle, c. 1890s...Image number: GPN4062
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
Covic & Pease's grocery store on Main Street, c. 1890s..Image number: F700
Baseball players, 1890s..Image number: P1669 Public domain scan of the vintage baseball memorabilia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cyanotype of crowd at Jetties Beach. c. 1890s...Image number: P10301
Nantucket Employment Society, 50 Main Street, c. 1890s..Image number: GPN2077
North side of Main Street. Businesses in the background are the Covic & Pease Fruits; F.J. Crosby, First Class Groceries & Table Supplies; Troy Laundry; and the Hatch & Co. Express Office...Image number: P3374
The Folger Block, 60 Main Street, with Bezazian Brothers Oriental Rugs, c. 1890s..Image number: GPN2079
Kenney's grocery on the south side of Main Street, c. 1890s..Image number: F6523
Sankaty Light was a popular destination for island visitors. 1890s, photo by Harry Platt...Image number: PH34-3
Bicyclists enjoying the island, 1893...Image number: P7130
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
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
62 Main Street, 1895..Image number: GPN4492 Public domain photograph of theater building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
Seven girls, ready to play tennis or badminton, probably in Siasconset...Image number: P12595
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
View of the store window of the Patrician Specialty Shoppe on Petticoat Row, Centre Street, c. 1900s...Image number: GPN3179
Maria T. Folger Holden, seated at her desk in the Siasconset Central Market, September 1900...Image number: GPN4024
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
Looking south on South Water Street from the intersection of Cambridge Street, c. 1900s...Image number: F3019a
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
Group of four women and one man in bathing costumes, at Jetties Beach. c. 1900s.
Jetties Beach with a crowd onshore and in the water. Photographer: Henry S. Wyer. c. 1900s...Image number: P15979
Elisha Pope Fearing Gardner, standing in front of Poet's Corner, c. 1900s...Image number: MS35-13-2
View of the Siasconset Casino tennis courts with many spectators watching the games, c. 1900s...Image number: p9353
The Steamboat Wharf baggage shed, with a large crowd milling through numerous trunks, c. 1900s...Image number: F6490
Nantucket Railroad; train leaving for Siasconset on Easy Street. ..Image number: F614
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
Boys and young men in the water at Jetties Beach. c. 1900s...Image number: F13
The shop at the 33 Main Street, decorated with bunting and flags...Image number: GPN2447
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
"Bon-Ton Fish Market John P. Taber Proprietor"..Image number: P22077
A young woman with a bicycle on Adam's Slip, off Steamboat Wharf, c. 1900s. ..Image number: F6497
Horse-drawn taxis and train at Steamboat Wharf, c. 1900s...Image number: F706
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
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
U.S. Lifesaving Service crew on drill, c. 1900s...Image number: P16214
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
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
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
1906..Image number: A11-32
The Central Market on Broadway in Siasconset, 1907..Image number: GPN4165
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
Interior view of Congdon's Pharmacy, showing the soda fountain, employees, and a patron, c. 1910s..Image number: F6811
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
Interior view of Congdon's Pharmacy, showing the soda fountain, employees, and a patron. c. 1910s..Image number: F6811
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. 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
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
The Monument Square Grocery, 106 Main Street, Whittemore Gardner, proprietor, and delivery wagon, c. 1910s...Image number: GPN4019
The Surfside Life Saving Station, with two boats on wheeled cradles, c. 1910s...Image number: P16233
Siasconset Book Store at Post Office Square in Sconset, c. 1910s...Image number: F6655
View of a horse drawn sleigh, pulled by two horses, stopped at Main and Federal Streets, 1911...Image number: F4306
Steamer Nantucket in ice off Brant Point in February.1912...Image number: P16109
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
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop at 9 Pearl Street, 1914...Image number: A69-16
Henry Todd's Ice Cream and Confectionery store,.formerly located at 3 Lower Pearl Street, 1914. The Nantucket Atheneum is on the left...Image number: F6264
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
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
1917..Image number: P16230
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
A crowd gathered at Brant Point to see the first landing of aircraft, two seaplanes. 17 April 1918..Image number: 4286
Jetties Beach, 20 August 1920. Sunbathers, with a few swimmers and the jetties in the background...Image number: F4673
Baseball team of unidentified children, c. 1920s..Image number: A21-7a
Man riding breeches buoy at picnic, 1920s...Image number: P1755
Masons picnic, man eating melon other watching, 1920s...Image number: P1751
Main Street looking east from Fair Street. Coffin's Dry Goods store in the foreground, 1928...Image number: A71-88
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
c. 1930s..Image number: P16269
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 of downtown Nantucket, 1930s, showing Main Street, the Skipper Restaurant, and Brant Point...Image number: P21975
Marguerite Jewett Roy and Myrtle Thurston Jewett talking in front of Walter Coffin Hardware...Image number: P19193
The ninth Brant Point Lighthouse was built in 1901 and remains there today. ..Image number: SC628-8
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
Constance Viola Greene Haroldson (1906-1996?) posing with a surfboard on Siasconset beach. 1932...Image number: A72-4
Walter and Anna Cady behind the counter of their store, Cady's Food Shop at 25 Main Street. Store is decorated with many signs and baked goods are behind the counter. 1933..Image number: SC472
Harvey A. Young's bicycle shop on Broad Street. Pictured from the left are Mr. Haskell, Harvey and Roger Young. The shop sign reads: Harvey A. Young's Bicycle Shop the cycle-logical way to see Nantucket - Renti More
A group of women posed around an airplane - summer 1939. Dave Raub's female flight students...Left to right: (standing) Jean Adams Cook (airport manager), Anne Beach, Grace Larkin Coffin, Edith Jenney, Kathryn More
View of the interior of the Atlantic & Pacific market, at 45 Main Street, with manager Melford Small standing by the counter. Note the Christmas decorations. c. 1940s..Image number: F6247
Sylvia's antique shop on South Water Street, with a fisherman walking past, c. 1940s. ..Image number: F2312
The A & P grocery on the north side of Main Street, 1940s...Image number: F1425
The ninth Brant Point Lighthouse was built in 1901 and remains there today. Photo by James Barker...Image number: P16205
View of the beach "bus" at the parking lot of the Cliffside Beach Club, with a full load of passengers. The Galley restaurant is in the background and there are a few other people in the view, including two wom More