Robert Cheney's Boat Yard on Ring's Island, MA, circa 1915

Robert Cheney's Boat Yard on Ring's Island, MA, circa 1915

Item Information

Title:
Robert Cheney's Boat Yard on Ring's Island, MA, circa 1915
Date:
[ca. 1915]
Format:
Photographs
Postcards/Cards
Genre:
Photographic postcards
Location:
Historical Society of Old Newbury
Box 15: Newburyport Houses, Salisbury Beach, W. Newbury Farms, Crane Neck, Rocks Village, Distasters - Fires, Disasters - Natural, Rings Island (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
The Snow Photograph Collection
Series:
Rings Island
Subjects:
Naval yards & naval stations
Boats
Places:
Massachusetts > Essex (county) > Rings Island
Extent:
1 photograph : print ; sheet 14 x 22 cm (postcard format)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/tq57q8290
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Notes:
Title from item.
Additional text from item: The Newburyport Maritime Museum and friends from Yankee Magazine Inc. cordially invite you to celebrate the gift of the photograph and manuscript collection of the late Robert Cheney, donated by Yankee Magazine Inc. Custom House Maritime Museum, September 23, 1991 6:00 PM. The bout yard sign hands where Amos Coffin once built boats. The two flat-sterned power boats nearest the camera are named Viola and Unknown. Behind them stand the schooner Henryetta, a flounder dragger. Second from the right is the strip-built Hampton boat Trouble. She was last of this type built.
Notes (date):
Date from item.
Identifier:
Rings Island 2