Looking Down Union Street and Union Wharf at "Newburgh"

Caption: "Vineyard Haven. The foot of Union street showing the Seaman's Bethel, two store buildings that have since been moved, and a three-masted schooner...*"

*... where the wharf should be. The coaster cut through the wharf when she came ashore in the November gale of 1898.

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Date: 1898
Location: Vineyard Haven - downtown - Union Street + Water Street
Keywords: wharves; stores; views; wagons; wrecks; storms; gales; schooners; Bethel; winter; snow