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Reproductions of these photographs are hanging in the Mansion House in Vineyard Haven.

Can you identify or provide any information about what you see in these photographs? Please contact us.

 
MH1. Train "Active" Leaving Oak Bluffs Wharf.

The railroad was built in 1874 and the Active (later named the South Beach) operated until 1896 by the Old Colony line. It ran from the Oak Bluffs wharf to Mattakeeset Lodge in Katama.

 
MH2. View down Beach Street toward Five Corners, Vineyard Haven. Circa 1930s.

 
MH3. Walter Renear Real Estate office and livery stable, Main Street, Vineyard Haven.

 
MH4. Capawock Theater, Main Street, Vineyard Haven, c. 1919.

 
MH5. Clement West with Dalmation in Horse-Drawn Mail Carriage, Vineyard Haven.

Handwritten caption: "Clement West / Back of Chapman House / Corner of Main + Camp St's? / He lived in the house next door now torn down / Old School House tower in the background"

 
MH6. View North on Main Street, Vineyard Haven, c. 1880s.

 
MH7.Five Women, Five Babies

Handwritten caption: "1) Mrs. Hough - Doris? 2) Rudolph Crockers Niece - Julliette Merry 3) Fannie Look - Ralph Look 4) Mrs. Lord - Constance Lord (Bill Honey's Mother) 5) Mrs. Clough - Clifton Clough"
Circa 1887-89.

 
MH8. Girdlestone Park, Oak Bluffs, about 1909.

 
MH9. Stephen Carey Luce Sr.'s grocery store

 
MH10. Homers Point, 1899.

 
MH11. Livery Stable and E. H. Manter Shoe Store, Main Street, Vineyard Haven, c. July 1884.

The livery was owned by Capt. Frank W. Vincent until 1887, and by Walter H. Renear until 1922.

 
MH12. Main Street, Vineyard Haven, looking north, late 1930s.

 
MH13. Main Street, Vineyard Haven, looking south, 1930s.

 
MH14. Walter Norton's Ice Cream Parlor, Cronig's Block, Main Street, Vineyard Haven, c. 1903-1919.


MH16. Oak Bluffs beachgoers, c.1920.

 
MH17. Oak Bluffs beachgoers, c.1920.

 

MH18. Oak Bluffs beachgoers, c.1920.

 

MH19. Circuit Ave., Oak Bluffs, c. 1920.

Unidentified couple. The building on the left was the post office.
Fred R. Metell (1885-1949), whose store sign appears in the background, was an Oak Bluffs plumber.

 
MH20. Baptist Church, Main Street, Vineyard Haven, before the great fire of 1883.

 
MH21. Mansion House, Peakes Express, and Baptist Church, Main Street, Vineyard Haven, before the great fire of 1883.

 
MH22. Mansion House, Main Street, Vineyard Haven. Before 1915.

 
MH23. Vineyard Haven Harnessmaker Rudolphus Crocker behind the wheel in Oak Bluffs.

Rodolphus Crocker Jr. (1845 - 1931) ran the Crocker Harness Factory on Main Street, Vineyard Haven, where the bank now stands. The first factory, built about 1872

 
MH24. E. St. Croix Oliver's Store

 
MH25. 1887 Birdseye map of Vineyard Haven


MH26. 1930s Mansion House advertisement


MH27. Barber Shop, Main Street, Vineyard Haven.


MH28. Beachgoers, Oak Bluffs.

 
MH30. Beachgoers, Vineyard Haven Harbor. Circa 1930s.

 
MH31. William Norton's Blacksmith Shop.