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Aug. 28, 1911 B
Mr. Olney Dunham
Nantucket, Mass.
5 West Chester St.
Dear O how is ma and grandpa I have had a very bad foot thought it rheumatism first it was broken and I think Uncle Frank and I must go away a few days at last of the week. The apprentice…
Aug. 28, 1911 A
Notes:
The yellow building to the immediate left carries a sign that reads : H.M. Rounds. Carriage Manufacturer.
A beautiful card with, a great variety of colors… marred only by that lurid lime green carriage in the foreground.
The reference to…
Nov. 25, 1912 B
Mr. Olney Dunham
Nantucket Island, Mass.
Dear O. When will you know about the L.S.S. job? Think you will get it. Thanks for card. Very pretty. Also the Hulus view. (?)
Hastey Aunty
Write soon.
Nov. 25, 1912 A
Notes:
At first glance it might appear to be the filmy strangeness on the surface of the river that accounts for the dark lure of this image. Is this mist? Or some kind of water-borne Spanish moss? It looks as if cobwebs have been spilled out of…
Dec. 17, 1912 B
Mr. N.O. Dunham
Nantucket Island
Nantucket, Mass.
Dear Olney
I have sent a pkg by express
Not the xmas-
Be on the look out for it.
Aunty
Dec. 11th 1912
My first school to go too.
Dec. 17, 1912 A
Notes:
Emma steps into the cards.
You have to wonder to what extent these cards – those that highlight a crumbling past – prove to be the campaign posters for the historic districts of the future. Again, this piece of nostalgia didn’t carry…
June 22, 1910 B
Mr. Olney Dunham
Nantucket Island
Nantucket, Mass
5 West Chester St.
Dear O thank you for the card I would like very much to be on that same beach. It is awful hot here. I have spoken many times of the good fish you got while I was with you. …
June 22, 1910 A
Notes:
The 1st card in the collection addressed to Olney (17). What formal language Emma uses here.
There is a mark on the face of this card that seems to be deliberate. Emma occasionally wrote on the images to orient the viewer to intersecting…
July 11, 1910 B
Mr. N.O. Dunham
5 West Chester St.
Nantucket Island
Nantucket, Mass.
What do you think of Main Street here. It is all right on the water side. I would like to take a dip. Aunty
July 11, 1910 A
Notes:
Sakonnet is located at the eastern side of the entrance to Narragansett Bay. This is a rare image (in this collection) of people at work.
Much like the card depicting the Oswegatchie House (September 6, 1912) in Waterford, Connecticut,…