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History: Photo of Men With a Wagon on East End of Long Island

Arts & Culture

By Published: December 26 2020

LongIsland.com

We dug into the archives to find this great historical picture.

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Photo: East Hampton Library, Long Island Collection.

This image shows a group of six men using a wagon to move objects in front of a building. While the date the photograph is taken is unknown the location of the photograph is said to be in Amagansett.

 

This photograph is part of the collection of the Carleton Kelsey Collection of the Amagansett Historical Association. Kelsey was a local historian and librarian who collected photographs from others to add  to the many photographs he took of the community himself.