SS ISLAND HOME
date: label: date made
content: 1855-1895
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: black and white stereograph mounted on yellow cardstock; photograph by J. Freeman; printed on recto "J. Freeman, / Nantucket."; image of a sidewheel steamship, ISLAND HOME, docked with small, two-masted sailboat in front of it; the SS ISLAND HOME initially provided ferry service between Nantucket and Hyannis; later service was provided between Woods Hole and Nantucket; it operated as a ferry between 1855 and ca. 1895, eventually damaged and sank in 1902
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Nantucket Island, Nantucket
topic: label: Subject
content: Steamships
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3033.0571
label: nonaccession number
content: 2012.3033
label: catalog number
content: 2012.3033.0571
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stereograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm