{"id":28365,"date":"2019-07-19T05:59:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T02:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=28365"},"modified":"2023-07-20T17:29:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T17:29:19","slug":"friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-newburyport-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/07\/19\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-newburyport-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday \u2018picture postals\u2019 from Lovecraft: Newburyport &#8211; part one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8230; back to Newburyport.  Which was Lovecraft&#8217;s key model for Innsmouth.<\/p>\n<p>Below are postcards not seen before in posts on this blog. I&#8217;ve previously collected such cards in posts such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/31\/halloween-postcard-special-along-the-innsmouth-shoreline\/\">Along the Innsmouth shoreline<\/a>.  But those below are additional cards.<\/p>\n<p>The marshes on Plum Island, and the river:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1920-Postcard-The-Marshes-Plum-Island-Newburyport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1920-Postcard-The-Marshes-Plum-Island-Newburyport.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"341\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1920-Postcard-The-Marshes-Plum-Island-Newburyport.jpg 823w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1920-Postcard-The-Marshes-Plum-Island-Newburyport-528x341.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1920-Postcard-The-Marshes-Plum-Island-Newburyport-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Newburyport-Plum-Island-MA-Marshes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Newburyport-Plum-Island-MA-Marshes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Newburyport-Plum-Island-MA-Marshes.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Newburyport-Plum-Island-MA-Marshes-528x343.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Newburyport-Plum-Island-MA-Marshes-768x499.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Salt-Marsh-Parker-River-Newburyport.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Salt-Marsh-Parker-River-Newburyport.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Salt-Marsh-Parker-River-Newburyport.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Salt-Marsh-Parker-River-Newburyport-528x340.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Salt-Marsh-Parker-River-Newburyport-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Salt-Marsh-Parker-River-Newburyport-1536x989.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Plum-Island-River-Newburyport-MA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Plum-Island-River-Newburyport-MA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Plum-Island-River-Newburyport-MA.jpg 1466w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Plum-Island-River-Newburyport-MA-528x334.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Plum-Island-River-Newburyport-MA-768x486.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The river and working boats:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1930S-MERRIMAC-RIVER-NEWBURYPORT-MASS-POSTCARD-t13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1930S-MERRIMAC-RIVER-NEWBURYPORT-MASS-POSTCARD-t13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"332\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1930S-MERRIMAC-RIVER-NEWBURYPORT-MASS-POSTCARD-t13.jpg 1101w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1930S-MERRIMAC-RIVER-NEWBURYPORT-MASS-POSTCARD-t13-528x332.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1930S-MERRIMAC-RIVER-NEWBURYPORT-MASS-POSTCARD-t13-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c1910-Real-Photo-Postcard-RPPC-Newburyport-MASSACHUSETTS-Locomotive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c1910-Real-Photo-Postcard-RPPC-Newburyport-MASSACHUSETTS-Locomotive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"335\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c1910-Real-Photo-Postcard-RPPC-Newburyport-MASSACHUSETTS-Locomotive.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c1910-Real-Photo-Postcard-RPPC-Newburyport-MASSACHUSETTS-Locomotive-528x335.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c1910-Real-Photo-Postcard-RPPC-Newburyport-MASSACHUSETTS-Locomotive-768x487.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Locomotive gone off a bridge or swept away in a flood. Said by the seller to be Newburyport, but I&#8217;m not 100% sure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Postcard-MA-Newburyport-Boat-Docks-on-the-Merrimack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Postcard-MA-Newburyport-Boat-Docks-on-the-Merrimack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"334\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Postcard-MA-Newburyport-Boat-Docks-on-the-Merrimack.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Postcard-MA-Newburyport-Boat-Docks-on-the-Merrimack-528x334.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Postcard-MA-Newburyport-Boat-Docks-on-the-Merrimack-768x486.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Postcard-MA-Newburyport-Boat-Docks-on-the-Merrimack-1536x972.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Next week: the town and Joppa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8230; back to Newburyport. Which was Lovecraft&#8217;s key model for Innsmouth. Below are postcards not seen before in posts &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/07\/19\/friday-picture-postals-from-lovecraft-newburyport-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-picture-postals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28365"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60781,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28365\/revisions\/60781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}