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"Ho wdee" Onshore, Briar N eck, Gloucester, circa 19 00. Photograph by Martha H ale H arvey (1862-1949) T he Cape Ann Historical M useum and the Society for the P reservation of N ew England Antiq ui ties are presenting "The Cam era's Coast," an exhibi tion feat uring seventy historic mar itime photographs fro m SPNEA's collection including views by Na thaniel Stebbins, H enry G . Peabody, and Baldw in Coolidge-as well as a selectio n of fo rty pho tographs by M artha H ale H arvey from the Annisquam Historical Society Collection and the CAHM . M artha H ale Harvey was bo rn to a family involved in bo th seafaring and publishing. In 18 84 she married local artist G eorge W ainwright H arvey, a self-taught marine and landscape painter. T hey traveled throughout Europe where M artha photographed a great many shi ps, fis hermen , and coas tal sce nes . Return ing to Cape Ann , she and her husband opened adj o ining studios in An nisquam . H arvey's photograp hic negati ves exist primarily as glass plates, m o re than 600 of whi ch are in the CAH M collection ; ano ther 300 or so are m aintained by the AH S. Mos t dare fro m the 1880s to 1920s and provide an artistic and technically proficient po rtrait of Cape An n coastal subjects. (CAHM, 27 Pleasan t St. , G lo ucester MA 01 93 0)
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