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This pencil drawing is the right half of Gloucester from Steepbank, c.1855 (inv. 125), the whole being a view of Gloucester Harbor from Western Avenue at the southwest corner of Fishermen’s Field (now Stage Fort Park). After cutting the drawing in half, this part was joined to a blank sheet of equal size. The reverse side was then used for the drawing Gloucester Outer Harbor, from the Cut, 1850s (inv. 109).
Separated from its left half, this drawing presents a very different scene, showing only the rocky southeast corner of Fishermen’s Field and a distant view of Rocky Neck and East Gloucester. For all its watery emptiness, this part of the scene would have been a great stimulus for Lane to occupy it with watercraft of types we can only imagine. To give some sense of the sizes of vessels at a distance, he has drawn a fishing schooner passing Ten Pound Island. This was a common occurrence in Lane’s harbor drawings as a means of determining the size of a vessel at a given distance. One of his drawings shows that he actually used linear perspective to this end (see View in Gloucester Harbor, 1850s (inv. 143)), but was apparently able to achieve realistic results without resorting to such efforts.
—Erik Ronnberg
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top] High Street is the old name for the west end of what is now Prospect Street. Originally, it was Back Street, to go with Middle and Front Streets. Front Street became Main Street. Middle Street is still Middle Street. Back Street became High Street, and then adopted the name Prospect Street which already had gone from Pleasant Street east.
– Sarah Dunlap
Glass plate negative from Benham Collection
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
View of Gloucester Harbor from Friend Street Wharves, Five Pound Island segment at far left, Rocky Neck, Eastern Point and Ten Pound Island in background.
Also filed under: Eastern Point » // Five Pound Island »
44 x 34 in.
Henry Francis Walling, Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Essex Co. Massachusetts. Philadelphia, A. Kollner, 1851
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
"Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts. H.F. Walling, Civil Engineer. John Hanson, Publisher. 1851. Population of Gloucester in 1850 7,805. Population of Rockport in 1850 3,213."
Also filed under: Gloucester Bank » // Low, Capt. Frederick Gilman » // Maps » // Stacy, Eben Hough »
Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Looking east down Main Street after storm of April 5, 1861; Centre Street enters from the left at "Job Printing" and John C. Calef, dry goods shop is on the right. (Buck and Dunlap, p. 97).
Also filed under: Historic Photographs » // J. C. Calef Dry Goods »
Original print not available; image from copy negative in collection of the Cape Ann Museum.
Also filed under: Historic Photographs »
44 x 34 in.
Henry Francis Walling, Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Essex Co. Massachusetts. Philadelphia, A. Kollner, 1851
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
"Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts. H.F. Walling, Civil Engineer. John Hanson, Publisher. 1851. Population of Gloucester in 1850 7,805. Population of Rockport in 1850 3,213."
Also filed under: Maps » // Procter Brothers »
Oil on canvas
15 x 24 in.
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Harold and Betty Bell, 1980 (2211)
Also filed under: Elwell, D. Jerome » // Town House »
Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Also filed under: Historic Photographs »
possibly 1884 Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Also filed under: Historic Photographs » // Sawyer Free Library »
Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Also filed under: Gloucester Harbor, Inner / Harbor Cove » // Historic Photographs »
c.1870s Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
From East Gloucester looking towards Gloucester.
Also filed under: Gloucester Harbor, Inner / Harbor Cove » // Historic Photographs »
c.1870 Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Also filed under: Half Moon Beach » // Historic Photographs » // Stage Rocks / Stage Fort / Stage Head » // Steepbank »
c.1870 Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Also filed under: Historic Photographs » // Stage Rocks / Stage Fort / Stage Head »
Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
1775–1875 Gloucester's Centennial, August 9th. Stereoscopic views of the celebration.
Also filed under: Historic Photographs »
c.1890 Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
"In the foreground is a clear sheet of water which washes upon the beach beyond. The Pavilion is quite prominent, while upon the rising background can be seen the steeples of the several churchs, the tower of the first Town House, and the Collins School House."
Also filed under: Historic Photographs » // Pavilion Hotel » // Stage Rocks / Stage Fort / Stage Head »
c.1880 Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
"Bond's Hill is a high eminence on the west side of Gloucester Harbor. The foreground is very rocky and shows a portion of the old road to West Gloucester and Essex, used before the road was built across the marsh, which is to be seen in the center of the picture. Beyond the marsh road is the canal with its dyke. Then the ground rises and dwelling houses appear, till Lookout Hill (or Mount Vernon Street.) can be seen on the left of the background. On the right of the picture is the 'Cut' road, the only carriage entrance into the main part of the town. Beyond it is to be seen 'Crescent Beach,' with the Pavilion and 'old Fort' and a portion of East Gloucester in the background. In the centre of the picture can be seen the unfinished tower of the Town House, and in the distance is the open sea, with Thatcher's Island and its lighthouses just discernible."
Also filed under: Historic Photographs » // Pavilion Hotel »
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
View shows Main Street Fish Market, Gloucester, Mass.
Also filed under: Fishing » // Historic Photographs »
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c.1870 Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Taken from Fort Point looking west. Ropewalk just to west of hotel.
Also filed under: Historic Photographs » // Pavilion (Publick) Beach » // Pavilion Hotel »
1834–35 Lithograph 24 x 38 in. Gloucester City Archives
"Drawn on a scale of one hundred feet to an inch. By John Mason 1834–45 from Actual Survey showing every Lott and building then standing on them giving the actual size of the buildings and width of the streets from the Canal to the head of the Harbour & part of Eastern point as farr as Smith's Cove and the Shore of the same with all the wharfs then in use. Gloucester Harbor 1834–1835."
This section of the map shows the location of the Pavilion Hotel and ropewalk along the beach.
Also filed under: Maps » // Mason, John » // Pavilion (Publick) Beach » // Pavilion Hotel » // Windmill »
1848 Newsprint D14-7 Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
A short article entitled "The Cut," and signed "Little Fellow" describes the southwestern part of Gloucester and the beach between the Canal and the Old Fort.
Also filed under: Cut, The (Stacy Blvd.) » // Piper, John J. »
1851 44 x 34 in. Henry Francis Walling, Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Essex Co. Massachusetts. Philadelphia, A. Kollner, 1851 Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
"Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts. H.F. Walling, Civil Engineer. John Hanson, Printer. 1851. Population of Gloucester in 1850 7,805. Population of Rockport in 1850 3,213."
Also filed under: Baptist Church (Old, First, 1830) (Pleasant Street) » // Burnham Brothers Marine Railway » // Duncan's Point » // Five Pound Island » // Flake Yard » // Gloucester Harbor, Inner / Harbor Cove » // Harbor Methodist Church (Prospect Street) » // Low (Frederick G.) wharves » // Pavilion Hotel » // Procter Brothers » // Vincent's Cove » // Western Shore »
1834–35 Lithograph 24 x 38 in. Gloucester City Archives
"Drawn on a scale of one hundred feet to an inch. By John Mason 1834–45 from Actual Survey showing every Lott and building then standing on them giving the actual size of the buildings and width of the streets from the Canal to the head of the Harbour & part of Eastern point as farr as Smith's Cove and the Shore of the same with all the wharfs then in use. Gloucester Harbor 1834–35."
This map shows the location of F. E. Low's wharf and the ropewalk. Duncan's Point, the site where Lane would eventually build his studio, is also marked.
The later notes on the map are believed to be by Mason.
Also filed under: Duncan's Point » // Gloucester Harbor, Inner / Harbor Cove » // Low (Frederick G.) wharves » // Low, Capt. Frederick Gilman » // Maps » // Mason, John » // Residences » // Somes, Capt. John »
1834–35 24 x 38 in. Gloucester City Archives
"Drawn on a scale of one hundred feet to an inch. By John Mason 1834–45 from Actual Survey showing every Lott and building then standing on them giving the actual size of the buildings and width of the streets from the Canal to the head of the Harbour & part of Eastern point as farr as Smith's Cove and the Shore of the same with all the wharfs then in use. Gloucester Harbor 1834–35."
This map is especially helpful in showing the wharves of the inner harbor at the foot of Washington Street.
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Steepbank (sometimes spelled "Steep Bank") was a house near Fresh Water Cove which, in Lane's time, served as a summer estate for brothers, Eben and Theron Dale. It had been built for “an artist” named “Mr. Eddy” in 1845, was next owned by a “Mr. Homer,” and then by a “Mr. C. B. Fessenden." Around 1858 it was purchased by Eben Dale.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
1543 plan 0141_0002
The third of the three plans has the references on it. "Plan showing the taking of land, flats and beach for Stage Fort Park…1898..."
Includes a reference to the home of Mary Turnbull which is Steepbank.
Also filed under: Maps » // Stage Rocks / Stage Fort / Stage Head »
c.1870 Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Also filed under: Gloucester – City Views » // Half Moon Beach » // Historic Photographs » // Stage Rocks / Stage Fort / Stage Head »
Newsprint
From bound volume owned by publisher Francis Procter
Collection of Fred and Stephanie Buck
"We visited the studio of Mr. Fitz H. Lane a few days since, and were much pleased in examining some fine paintings from the pencil of this talented artist. Among the collection was a view of Long Beach, in this town, with which we were particularly interested.
The scene is taken immediately after a storm. The waves with their snowy crests are rolling in upon the beach, breaking against the sides of a vessel which has been driven ashore. In the background is seen the residence of Mr. Fessenden, and the surrounding scenery; on the right are visible the high headlands near the residence of Mr. Geo. Hovey, while stretching far away in the distance may be seen Fresh Water Cove, Dolliver's Neck, and the Old Pine Tree, the whole forming a beautiful picture and true to Nature.
Several other paintings were in process of completion, one a beautiful sunset scene, which was really beautiful to gaze upon; also a view of a gale at sea, with a gallant ship plunging madly through the waves, forming a striking contrast to the mild placid scene of the picture at its side.
Mr. Lane's paintings are true to nature, and in viewing them one can but admire the skill and genius of this talented artist, We advise all lovers of the art, who wish to spend an hour pleasantly, to visit the studio of Mr. Lane on Locust St. We can assure them that they will come away highly gratified, and have an earnest desire to call again." (1)
(1) See p. 2, column 3, Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society
Also filed under: Chronology » // Dolliver's Neck » // Fessenden, C. B. » // Fresh Water Cove » // Lone Pine » // Newspaper / Journal Articles » // Studio Descriptions »
44 x 34 in.
Henry Francis Walling, Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Essex Co. Massachusetts. Philadelphia, A. Kollner, 1851
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
"Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts. H.F. Walling, Civil Engineer. John Hanson, Publisher. 1851. Population of Gloucester in 1850: 7,805. Population of Rockport in 1850: 3,213."
Also filed under: Annisquam River » // Brookbank » // Dolliver's Neck » // Fresh Water Cove » // Gloucester Harbor, Outer » // Maps » // Norman's Woe » // Stage Rocks / Stage Fort / Stage Head » // West Gloucester – Little River » // Western Shore »
c.1860 Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Taken from Steepbank, on the western side of Gloucester Harbor, and showing a small boat at anchor in the cove, then the Neck, and the sea beyond.
Also filed under: Dolliver's Neck » // Fresh Water Cove » // Historic Photographs » // Lone Pine »
Letter
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive, Gloucester, Mass.
". . . will fully appreciate all that I have done in my garden, in ornamenting it, with flowers and plants, Rustic Arbours and Statues, and I only wish that you could be here to witness and enjoy his [Dr. J. L. Stevens] expressions of delight and interest, when a new flower attracts his attention, or some beauty of arrangement meets his eye. Samuel [B. Stevens of Castine] he tells me came up with the expectation of going on a voyage to Australia, but when he arrived in Boston he found the vessel with her compliment of men, and it is very uncertain if he goes in her. Your Mother and all at home are well. I yesterday made a sketch of Stage Fort and the surrounding scenery, from the water. Piper has given me an order for a picture from this point of view, to be treated as a sunset. I shall try to make something out of it, but it will require some management, as there is no foreground but water and vessels. One o’clock, it is very hot, the glass indicates 84° in my room, with the windows all open and a light breeze from the east, this is the warmest day . . .
. . . than devoting it to you. Since writing you last I have painted but one picture worth talking about and that one I intend for you if you should be pleased with it. It is a View of the beach between Stage Fort and Steep bank including Hovey’s Hill and residence, Fresh water cove and the point of land with the lone pine tree. Fessenden’s house, likewise comes into the picture. The effect is a mid day light with a cloudy sky, a patch of sunlight is thrown across the beach and the breaking waves, an old vessel lies stranded on the beach with two or three figures, there are a few vessels in the distance and the Field rocks likewise show at the left of the picture. I think you will be pleased with this picture, for it is a very picturesque scene especially the beach, as there are many rocks which come in to destroy the monotony of a plain sand beach, and I have so arranged the light and shade that the effect I think is very good indeed, however you will be better able to judge of that when you see it, the size is 20 x 33. . ."
Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
1543 plan 0141_0001
The third of the three plans has the references on it “Plan showing the taking of land, flats and beach for Stage Fort Park…1898…”
Includes a reference to the home of Mary Turnbull which is Steepbank.
Also filed under: Field Beach / Crescent (or Cressy's) Beach / Long Beach » // Maps » // Stage Rocks / Stage Fort / Stage Head »
top] The beach between Stage Rocks and Tablet Rocks, adjacent to Fisherman's Field, was known during Lane's time as either Field Beach or Long Beach. It was a bit more rocky than Half Moon Beach. After Lane's time it became known as Crescent (or Cressy's) Beach. Field Rocks are just off the shore of the beach.
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Stage Fort from Hough's Farm, showing a panorama of the harbor from Pavilion Beach to Fort Point and Rocky Neck.
Also filed under: Stage Rocks / Stage Fort / Stage Head »
Newspaper
"Mr. Lane has just completed a third picture of the Western Shore of Gloucester Harbor, including the distance from 'Norman's Woe Rock' to 'Half Moon Beach.' It was painted for Mr. William E. Coffin of Boston, and will be on exhibition at the artist's rooms for only a few days; we advise all our readers who admire works of art, and would see one of the best pictures Mr. Lane has ever executed..."
"...solitary pine, so many years a familiar object and landmark to the fisherman."
Also filed under: Coffin, William E. » // Dolliver's Neck » // Fresh Water Cove » // Half Moon Beach » // Lone Pine » // Newspaper / Journal Articles » // Norman's Woe » // Studio Descriptions »
Letter
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive, Gloucester, Mass.
". . . will fully appreciate all that I have done in my garden, in ornamenting it, with flowers and plants, Rustic Arbours and Statues, and I only wish that you could be here to witness and enjoy his [Dr. J. L. Stevens] expressions of delight and interest, when a new flower attracts his attention, or some beauty of arrangement meets his eye. Samuel [B. Stevens of Castine] he tells me came up with the expectation of going on a voyage to Australia, but when he arrived in Boston he found the vessel with her compliment of men, and it is very uncertain if he goes in her. Your Mother and all at home are well. I yesterday made a sketch of Stage Fort and the surrounding scenery, from the water. Piper has given me an order for a picture from this point of view, to be treated as a sunset. I shall try to make something out of it, but it will require some management, as there is no foreground but water and vessels. One o’clock, it is very hot, the glass indicates 84° in my room, with the windows all open and a light breeze from the east, this is the warmest day . . .
. . . than devoting it to you. Since writing you last I have painted but one picture worth talking about and that one I intend for you if you should be pleased with it. It is a View of the beach between Stage Fort and Steep bank including Hovey’s Hill and residence, Fresh water cove and the point of land with the lone pine tree. Fessenden’s house, likewise comes into the picture. The effect is a mid day light with a cloudy sky, a patch of sunlight is thrown across the beach and the breaking waves, an old vessel lies stranded on the beach with two or three figures, there are a few vessels in the distance and the Field rocks likewise show at the left of the picture. I think you will be pleased with this picture, for it is a very picturesque scene especially the beach, as there are many rocks which come in to destroy the monotony of a plain sand beach, and I have so arranged the light and shade that the effect I think is very good indeed, however you will be better able to judge of that when you see it, the size is 20 x 33. . ."
Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
1543 plan 0141_0001
The third of the three plans has the references on it “Plan showing the taking of land, flats and beach for Stage Fort Park…1898…”
Includes a reference to the home of Mary Turnbull which is Steepbank.
Also filed under: Maps » // Stage Rocks / Stage Fort / Stage Head » // Steepbank »
29 x 25 in.
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive (#089)
Ernest Bowditch was a landscape gardener. This map shows some of the various names of landmarks around Stage Rocks.
Also filed under: Half Moon Beach » // Maps » // Stage Rocks / Stage Fort / Stage Head »
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Gloucester Outer Harbor served as a staging area for deep draft or heavily laden vessels waiting to come into the wharves in the shallow Old Harbor at high tide, or waiting to discharge cargo into smaller vessels. While Lane's paintings typically show one or two vessels in the harbor, works by other artists from the period, as well as contemporary descriptions, demonstrate that the harbor was usually crowded with vessels, especially in bad weather. The Outer Harbor could accommodate as many as three hundred vessels when they needed to shelter during a storm.
There were two deep spots where they could wait, the "Deep Hole" between Ten Pound Island and the Fort; and the "Pancake Grounds" between Ten Pound Island and Eastern Point. The "Pancake Grounds" also served as a quarantine area for ships arriving from foreign ports. "Deep Hole" was named for the (relatively) deep water between Rocky Neck and Fort Point to the Outer Harbor. Deeply loaded vessels had to anchor there for “lightering” (partial unloading by boats called “lighters”) prior to final unloading at wharfside. "Deep Hole" was 20–25 feet deep at low tide, when Harbor Cove was only 1–6 feet deep with bare ground around some wharves. "Deep Hole" is where you see ships anchored in Gloucester Harbor from Rocky Neck, 1844 (inv. 14), The Old Fort and Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, 1850s (inv. 30), , Gloucester Inner Harbor, 1850 (inv. 240), The Fort and Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1847 (inv. 271), and Gloucester Harbor, 1848 (inv. 335) (which is coming to anchor).
The term "Deep Hole" is apparently a post-Bellum term. Prior to that, it was known as "The Stream" and, as later, served as anchorage where deeply loaded vessels could be lightered prior to docking in Harbor Cove. Alfred Mansfield Brooks in his book Gloucester Recollected uses this term on page 53. After the Civil War, merchant shipping in Gloucester was dominated by salt ships and later coal carriers, bringing a whole new culture to the harbor, and with it new names for old places.
John Heywood Photo for Hervey Friend
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive (2013.068)
Schooners anchored on the Pancake Ground, taken from from Wonson's Cove, easterly side of the Rocky Neck causeway. Eastern Point Fort and garrison in background to far left.
Also filed under: Eastern Point »
c.1870 Stereograph card Procter Brothers, Publisher Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
"Gloucester Harbor from Rocky Neck, Looking Southwest. This gives a portion of the Harbor lying between Ten Pound Island and Eastern Point. At the time of taking this picture the wind was from the northeast, and a large fleet of fishing and other vessels were in the harbor. In the range of the picture about one hundred vessels were at anchor. In the small Cove in the foreground quite a number of dories are moored. Eastern Point appears on the left in the background."
Southeast Harbor was known for being a safe harbor.
Also filed under: Historic Photographs » // Rocky Neck » // Schooner (Fishing) » // Small Craft – Wherries, and Dories »
Collection of Erik Ronnberg
View related catalogue entries (2) »
Also filed under: Dolliver's Neck » // Fresh Water Cove » // Gloucester Harbor, Inner / Harbor Cove » // Maps »
c.1870 Stereograph card Procter Brothers, Publisher Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
View from Civil War fort on Eastern Point.
Also filed under: Eastern Point » // Historic Photographs »
44 x 34 in.
Henry Francis Walling, Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Essex Co. Massachusetts. Philadelphia, A. Kollner, 1851
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
"Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts. H.F. Walling, Civil Engineer. John Hanson, Publisher. 1851. Population of Gloucester in 1850: 7,805. Population of Rockport in 1850: 3,213."
Also filed under: Annisquam River » // Brookbank » // Dolliver's Neck » // Fresh Water Cove » // Maps » // Norman's Woe » // Stage Rocks / Stage Fort / Stage Head » // Steepbank » // West Gloucester – Little River » // Western Shore »
Newsprint
Cape Ann Advertiser
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Notice in the Cape Ann Advertiser announcing arrival of ships into the port of Gloucester, with details of their cargo.
Also filed under: Newspaper / Journal Articles » // Trade Routes and Statistics »
Newspaper
"Lane's studio seldom presents so many attractions to visitors as at the present time. With unwonted rapidity his easel has turned off pictures in answer to the numerous orders which have poured in from all quarters."
Also filed under: Chronology » // Newspaper / Journal Articles » // Studio Descriptions »
Electrotype impression
Collection of Erik Ronnberg
Also filed under: Gloucester Harbor, Inner / Harbor Cove » // Maps »
c.1870 Stereograph card Procter Brothers, Publisher Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Also filed under: Historic Photographs » // Stage Rocks / Stage Fort / Stage Head »
Pencil and ink on paper
15 x 22 1/8 in.
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Mr. Donald K. Usher, in memory of Mrs. Margaret Campbell Usher, 1984 (2401.19)
Also filed under: Beacons / Monuments / Spindles » // Mackerel Fishing »
Watercolor on paper
8 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Rev. and Mrs. A. A. Madsen, 1950
Accession # 1468
Fishing schooners in Gloucester's outer harbor, probably riding out bad weather.
Also filed under: Elwell, D. Jerome » // Schooner (Fishing) »
top] The Stage, as it was known in Lane’s time, now Stage Fort Park, rises from the western shore of the Outer Harbor, just south and west of the Cut and the Blynman Bridge as you leave Gloucester. This was the first settlement of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1623 where fourteen men of the Dorchester Company landed and tried in vain to settle and survive through a combination of fishing and farming. They were successful at neither, and in 1626 they moved on and founded Salem.
During the Revolution the Gloucester patriots built a fort on the north side of Half Moon Beach to defend against British invaders which was never needed. The fort was restored for the War of 1812 and again for the Civil War, but again saw no action.
During Lane’s lifetime this area was the Hough farm. Townspeople were generally given free run of the place for strolling and picnics overlooking the harbor. The enormous rounded boulders and ledge outcroppings rose dramatically from the fields above the harbor without the tree cover that partially obscures them today.
Lane did numerous paintings of this area, including many views looking westward from the vantage point onboard a boat in the harbor. In Stage Rocks and the Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor, 1857 (inv. 8) the Stage Rocks frame the west side of Gloucester Harbor and provided a peaceful and bucolic counterpoint to the intense activity of the city waterfront only a mile away across the harbor. Lane also painted the Stage Rocks from the beach just to the north near the Cut and Field Beach, which is on the southern side of the Stage Rocks facing out the harbor entrance to the sea.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
1543 plan 0141_0002
The third of the three plans has the references on it. "Plan showing the taking of land, flats and beach for Stage Fort Park…1898..."
Includes a reference to the home of Mary Turnbull which is Steepbank.
Also filed under: Maps » // Steepbank »
c.1870 Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Also filed under: Gloucester – City Views » // Half Moon Beach » // Historic Photographs » // Steepbank »
44 x 34 in.
Henry Francis Walling, Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Essex Co. Massachusetts. Philadelphia, A. Kollner, 1851
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
"Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts. H.F. Walling, Civil Engineer. John Hanson, Publisher. 1851. Population of Gloucester in 1850: 7,805. Population of Rockport in 1850: 3,213."
Also filed under: Annisquam River » // Brookbank » // Dolliver's Neck » // Fresh Water Cove » // Gloucester Harbor, Outer » // Maps » // Norman's Woe » // Steepbank » // West Gloucester – Little River » // Western Shore »
c.1870 Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Also filed under: Half Moon Beach » // Historic Photographs » // Western Shore »
c.1870 Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Also filed under: Gloucester – City Views » // Historic Photographs »
c.1890 Stereograph card Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
"In the foreground is a clear sheet of water which washes upon the beach beyond. The Pavilion is quite prominent, while upon the rising background can be seen the steeples of the several churchs, the tower of the first Town House, and the Collins School House."
Also filed under: Gloucester – City Views » // Historic Photographs » // Pavilion Hotel »
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Stage Fort from Hough's Farm, showing a panorama of the harbor from Pavilion Beach to Fort Point and Rocky Neck.
Also filed under: Field Beach / Crescent (or Cressy's) Beach / Long Beach »
c.1870 Stereograph card Procter Brothers, Publisher Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
Also filed under: Gloucester Harbor, Outer » // Historic Photographs »
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds. 1543 plan 0141_0003
salemdeeds.com
The third of the three plans has the references on it “Plan showing the taking of land, flats and beach for Stage Fort Park…1898…"
Includes a reference to the home of “Mary Turnbull” which is Steepbank.
Also filed under: Maps »
Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Southern Essex District Registry of Deeds
1543 plan 0141_0001
The third of the three plans has the references on it “Plan showing the taking of land, flats and beach for Stage Fort Park…1898…”
Includes a reference to the home of Mary Turnbull which is Steepbank.
Also filed under: Field Beach / Crescent (or Cressy's) Beach / Long Beach » // Maps » // Steepbank »
Colored lithograph
Cape Ann Museum Library and Archive
Also filed under: Western Shore »
29 x 25 in.
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive (#089)
Ernest Bowditch was a landscape gardener. This map shows some of the various names of landmarks around Stage Rocks.
Also filed under: Field Beach / Crescent (or Cressy's) Beach / Long Beach » // Half Moon Beach » // Maps »
Marks: Inscribed upper left (in red ink): 100D [numbering system used by curator A. M. Brooks upon Samuel H. Mansfield's donation of the drawings to the Cape Ann Museum]
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