GUSN-189836
This full color postcard depicts the rescue device "breeches buoy" in action. A breeches buoy would be deployed from one ship to another or from shore to rescue persons trapped in wrecks. In addition to the rescue device there are two carriages depicted in the sand.
beaches
carriages (vehicles)
sand
postcards
photographs
1 postcard
PC001
General photographic collection
1922-08-22
PC001.03.02.TMP.002
Estate
postcards
photographs
Lifesaving
W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 117.
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