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Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Photograph of Mertie West drinking from the Pilgrim Spring fountain which stands outside the Plymouth Post Office Building. A sidewalk stretches along the bottom edge at an angle. The stone fountain stands off-center to the left. It is viewed at an angle from the front, facing slightly left. Atop the fountain, an inscribed tablet rises from the center of the fountain. It reads, "PILGRIM SPRING ON THE MEERSTEAD SET OFF TO ELDER WILLIAM BREWSTER IN THE ORIGINAL ALLOTMENT DECEMBER 1620 ERECTED BY THE TOWN 1915 FREELY DRINK AND QUENCH YOUR [...] HERE DRANK THE PILGRIM FATHERS [...]." Below the tablet, a spigot extends from the front of the fountain's base. Immediately behind and to the right of the fountain, Mertie West hunches over the right end of the fountain and drinks. She stands in profile, facing left. The brick exterior of the Post Office Building stands in partial view along the right half of the image, extending out-of-frame. In the background at left, houses are visible lining Leyden Street. NRHP reference # 86002926 (Plymouth Post Office Building) Text from negative sleeve: 2358. Eastern trip October 1947 Plymouth 1 Forefathers monument Mertie West at the base 2 H H West at Standish and Alden marker 3 H H West at steps to burial hill very poor negative 4 Mertie West talking to man selling cards across from the ROCK 5 & 6 H H and Mertie West drinking at the old spring in front of P.O. 7 Mertie West reading the tablet on site of the first lookout and fort now part of Burial Hill
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2358_004 ark:/21198/zz002j3nx6
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Post offices--Massachusetts--Plymouth Sightseers--Massachusetts--Plymouth Fountains--Massachusetts--Plymouth Historic buildings--Massachusetts--Plymouth West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972
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