Wading Women, Nantucket Island Massachusetts
Two women in waders from the rear, c. 1900s...Image number: A31-14a
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
Surfside Lifesaving Station, Nantucket Island Massachusetts
Probably shortly after the station opened in 1874, before uniforms were required. ..Image number: P4531
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Siasconset Casino, Nantucket Island Massachusetts
View of the Siasconset Casino tennis courts with many spectators watching the games, c. 1900s...Image number: p9353
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
Red Rover?, c. 1900s, Nantucket Island Massachusetts
Boys and young men in the water at Jetties Beach. c. 1900s...Image number: F13
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Flight Students, 1939, Nantucket Island Massachusetts
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
Brant Point Lighthouse, c. 1940, Nantucket Island Massachusetts
The ninth Brant Point Lighthouse was built in 1901 and remains there today. Photo by James Barker...Image number: P16205
Cliffside Beach Bus, 1941, Nantucket Island Massachusetts
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
Sankaty Head Golf Club Caddies, Nantucket Island Massachusetts
Caddies of 1941 practicing golf shots in a line at the Sankaty Head Golf Club...Image number: A28-16a
Cliffside Beach Umbrellas, 1950s., Nantucket Island Massachusetts
View of Cliffside Beach with umbrellas. Photograph by Louis Davidson. 1950s...Image number: P5837
The Great Point lighthouse, Nantucket Island Massachusetts
The current, third lighthouse at Great Point, built after the previous lighthouse was destroyed by a nor'easter on 29 March 1984. Photo by Flint Ranney, 1986...Image number: P18648
The Moving of Sankaty Lighthouse, 2007, Nantucket Island Massachusetts
Threatened by erosion and decommissioned by the U.S. Government, the lighthouse was moved away from the edge of the bluff in 2007, supported by the 'Sconset Trust. Photo by Georgen Charnes...Image number: SC655-2
Cape Verdean Picnic, Nantucket Island Massachusetts
A group of Cape Verdeans enjoying a picnic...Image number: SC72
