Martha's Vineyard Museum
A Finding Aid to the Nantucket Tourism Collection, 1873-1964, undated
Table of Contents
Descriptive Summary
Repository | Martha's Vineyard Museum,
Gale Huntington Research Library 59 School Street P.O. Box 1310 Edgartown, MA 02539 (508)627-4441 |
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Call Number | RU 429 |
Creator | |
Title | Nantucket tourism collection |
Date | 1873-1964, undated |
Extent | 1 box + 1/2 box (0.756 cubic feet) |
Language | The materials are in English. |
Abstract | The collection consists of printed ephemera dating from the late 1800s to the 1960s, including, pamphlets, brochures, leaflets, serials, maps and small publications related to the tourist industry on the island of Nantucket. |
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
Use and Reproduction Restrictions
Requests to reproduce material from this collection should be directed to the library's staff. Reproduction fees may apply.
Preferred Citation
Martha's Vineyard Museum, RU 429, Nantucket Tourism Collection.
Acquisition Information
The materials in this collection were acquired from various sources, including: viewbook, Souvenir of Nantucket, gift of Doris Walker in 1987, (Accession no. 1987.071); viewbook, 106 Views of Nantucket; Town, Island and County…, gift of Thomas Thatcher in 1988, (Accession no. 1988.071); two leaflets, "The Whaling Museum," gift of Dorothy Jernegan in 1993, (Accession no. 1993.027); brochure, Nantucket, gift of Mrs. Upton Thomas in 1984 (Accession no. 1984.075).
Publication Information
Martha's Vineyard Museum
Gale Huntington Research Library59 School Street
P.O. Box 1310
Edgartown, MA 02539
(508)627-4441
Processing Information
Finding aid prepared by Insley Julier in December 2012. Machine-encoded by Nathaniel Janick April 2014.
Creation of this finding aid was sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Index Terms
Corporate Name(s)
- Nantucket Agricultural Society
- Nantucket Historical Association
- New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamboat Line
- New England Steamship Company
- New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company
- Whaling Museum (Nantucket, Mass.)
Genre(s)
- Brochures
- Guidebooks
- Leaflets
- Maps
- Pamphlets
- Periodicals
- Publications
- Viewbooks
Geographic Name(s)
- Nantucket Island (Mass.)
- Nantucket (Mass.)--Description and travel
- Nantucket (Mass.)--Guidebooks
- Nantucket (Mass.)--History
- Nantucket (Mass.)--Maps
- Nantucket (Mass.)--Pictorial works
- Nantucket (Mass.)--Poetry
Biography/Historical Note
The island of Nantucket, located off the south-east coast of Massachusetts has been a tourist destination since the mid-19th century. As the whaling industry declined, the tourist industry expanded, with visitors intrigued by Herman Melville's description of the island in Moby Dick. Nantucket's maritime history has been preserved by the Nantucket Historical Association and other local museums, while the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1934, remains active in promoting island businesses associated with the tourist economy. Temperate weather, pristine beaches, old architecture and rich history continue to attract visitors to the island to this day.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection consists of printed pamphlets, brochures, leaflets, serials, maps and small publications related to the island of Nantucket dating from the late 1800s to the 1960s. Many of the items in the collection were issued by the Nantucket Historical Association, the town Information Bureau or the ferry and railroad lines which served the island. Most of the materials are illustrated with prints; some by well-known illustrators and publishers, such as John Held, 1947- (illustrator) and L. Prang & Co. (publisher), and others with stock photographs reproduced using photomechanical processes. Although these materials were acquired from a variety of sources, they were gathered together by a previous staff member to form an artificial collection on Nantucket.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged chronologically.
Collection Contents
Box | Folder | |||
Transactions of the Nantucket Agricultural Society (periodical), 1873, 1875 | 1 | 1 | ||
Souvenir of Nantucket (viewbook), 1881 or after | 1 | 2 | ||
"Nantucket at Sea" (leaflet), circa 1885 | 1 | 3 | ||
Nantucket in a Nutshell (pamphlet), 1889 | 1 | 4 | ||
Ye Ballade of Olde Nantucket, 1746 (book), 1892 | 1 | 5 | ||
A Rhyme of Nantucket, by a Native (pamphlet), 1895 | 1 | 6 | ||
"Nantucket as a Summer Home," The Morning Mercury (periodical), 1899 | 1 | 7 | ||
Quaint Rhymes of Ancient Nantucket (book), early 1900s | 1 | 8 | ||
Nantucket Island, Massachusetts: "Where Summer is Five Septembers Long" (brochures), early 1900s | 1 | 9 | ||
Nantucket Island, Massachusetts: An Ideal Health and Vacation Resort (brochure), early 1900s | 1 | 10 | ||
Nantucket, An Island in the Ocean (brochure), 1906 | 1 | 11 | ||
Quaint Old Nantucket, Sea Cliff Inn (brochure), 1906 or after | 1 | 12 | ||
Images from the Inquirer and Mirror, 1908 or after | 1 | 13 | ||
106 Views of Nantucket; Town, Island and Country… (viewbook), 1911 | 1 | 14 | ||
A Captain of the Vanished Fleet (book), 1915 | 1 | 15 | ||
Nantucket (brochure), 1917 or after | 1 | 16 | ||
Guide to Nantucket (book), 1918 | 1 | 17 | ||
"Argument Settlers"; What Has Happened on and Around Nantucket (book), 1920 | 1 | 18 | ||
"Nantucket Island," Fall River Line Journal (periodical), 1924 | 1 | 19 | ||
"Down to the Sea in Ships," The Outlook: An Illustrated Weekly of Current Life (periodical), 1924 | 1 | 20 | ||
The Nantucket Informer (brochure), 1928 | 1 | 21 | ||
Nantucket, by Walter Prichard Eaton (brochure), circa 1928 | 1 | 22 | ||
This Week in Nantucket (periodicals), 1929 | 1 | 23 | ||
Nantucket Island; A Delightful Health and Vacation Resort, Thirty Miles at Sea (brochures), between 1930s and 1940s, undated | 1 | 24 | ||
Trip to Nantucket DVD film, 1934 | 1 | 25 | ||
"Centre Street Methodist Church" (leaflet), 1949 or after | 1 | 26 | ||
Nantucket Island Map: Setting Forth the History and Many Points of Interest (map), 1950s | 1 | 27 | ||
"Main Street, Nantucket Massachusetts: From the Head of the Square to the Monument" (leaflet), 1954 | 1 | 28 | ||
"The Town of Nantucket" (leaflet), 1954 | 1 | 29 | ||
The Nantucket Historical Association (brochures), 1954, 1956 | 1 | 30 | ||
The Folk Art of the American Whaleman (periodical), 1955 | 2 | 1 | ||
Whaling Museum (Nantucket, Mass.), 1955-1964, undated | 2 | 2-3 | ||
Rambles through the Historic Nantucket District (pamphlets), 1959, undated | 2 | 4 | ||
Nantucket (brochure), undated | 2 | 5 | ||