Primary source · postcard
White Head, Cushing Island, Portland Harbor, ca. 1928
[DOC]DocumentedMMN #71608
A linen postcard reproducing the same cliff Harrison Bird Brown painted for Sargent's 1886 sketch — the island's image travelling through the tourist economy.
Provenance
- Date
- ca. 1928
- Creator
- Publisher not recorded on the item (#61191)
- Held by
- Boston Public Library
- Identifier
- MMN #71608
- Rights
- Boston Public Library. See record page for reuse terms.
No features on this image have been positively identified yet. Annotations are added only where a feature can be named from evidence, not from resemblance.
Follow this evidence
- 01Stand at White HeadPlace · White Head — Landscape · All eras
- 02Who was Harrison Bird Brown?Person · Harrison Bird Brown — Painter of White Head and the Cliff, engraved for Sargent (1886)
- 03Read the whole layer: The Island TodayLayer · The Island Today — Layer 06 · 1947 → now
- 04Read the whole layer: The Summer IslandLayer · The Summer Island — Layer 03 · 1858 → 1917