30106. (copy photo) Muskeget Life Saving Station Crew Launching Surfboat, Nantucket c.1900 view.
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30106. (copy photo) Muskeget Life Saving Station Crew Launching Surfboat, Nantucket c.1900 view.
30106. (copy photo) Muskeget Life Saving Station Crew Launching Surfboat, Nantucket c.1900 view. 8” x 10 ¼” b/w. Off the western tip of Nantucket, beyond Tuckernuck in the direction of Martha’s Vineyard, lies Muskeget Island, hardly more than a sandbar in the encroaching sea. In the 1880s and 1890s The U.S. Live-Saving Service station and nineteen other buildings, mostly fishermen’s shanties, stood on Muskeget. The first life-saving station on the island was built in 1883, an 1882-Type station with one boat-room door and an enclosed lookout on the roof. Construction of the first Muskeget Station began in February 1883. There was (and still remains) no way to put out fires on the isolated island, and on December 28, 1889, the station burned to the ground while the crew was out performing a rescue. Nearly seven years passed before the Live-Saving Service rebuilt the station, and the double-bay Quonochontaug-Type station was completed in 1896-1897. Photo measures 8” x 10 ¼” and is crystal clear and quite close, providing an exceptional view as the crew prepares to launch the surfboat. High resolution image printed on heavy, premium luster photo paper for a highly detailed finish, without the glare, using pigment inks for a long-lasting print. Rare view. (M). $21.95.