Workers of Plum Island l 1890s | Framed Canvas

Workers of Plum Island in the 1890s from the New England Sketch Book glass negative collection. This historic image captures Knobb’s Beach Life Saving Station crew, market hunters & others. 

Canvas print set in wood finish floating frame. Dimensions are 31 1/4" L x 14 1/4"H

About the NESB Negative Collection

We are passionately committed to preserving, and sharing, New England's amazing images and historic narratives. This commitment has been an active passion for decades and spans across all manner of regional artifacts. One area of this focus has been the preservation, cleaning (carefully) and digitization of historic glass negatives that are now being made into stunning prints that are exclusive to our shop.

In many ways we saw these wonderful and cultural captures as photographic orphans - disconnected from their original printed creation- often boxed in stacks and thrust into an inglorious attic or barn archive. The thrill is finding unique, interesting compositions that reflect the subtle, point in time activity, now lost or forgotten, of a bygone era.