Windmill, owned by Silas Swift

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Collection Type

Photography

Date

ca. 1890

GUSN

GUSN-180518

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General photographic collection
Standard-size photographs, 1860s-2000s
Geographic locations
Massachusetts
Massachusetts - Falmouth
Massachusetts - Falmouth - Windmill - Unmounted
Windmill, owned by Silas Swift
(current record)

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General photographic collection
- Standard-size photographs, 1860s-2000s
  - Geographic locations
    - Massachusetts
      - Massachusetts - Falmouth
        Massachusetts - Falmouth - Windmill - Unmounted
        Windmill, owned by Silas Swift (current record)

Description

This is a windmill in Falmouth, Massachusetts with a group of people standing beneath it. There is a man fixing the blades, a group of people in a wagon and two men sitting with a dog. There is also a man and a woman standing behind a girl who is sitting in front of an easel sketching the windmill.

Details

Descriptive Terms

windmills
sketching
wagons (cargo vehicles)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Physical Descrption

1 photograph ; 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Date of Acquisition

1917-04-10

Reference Code

PC001.02.01.USMA.0980.0100.001

Acqusition Type

Gift

Image Dimensions

7 1/2 x 9 1/2 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Falmouth (Barnstable county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928 (Photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Other People

Swift, Silas

Accruals Note

W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg.102-103

Description Level

Item

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