{"id":60783,"date":"2023-07-21T03:28:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T03:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=60783"},"modified":"2023-07-20T19:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:49:56","slug":"return-to-innsmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/07\/21\/return-to-innsmouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Innsmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previous Tentaclii<\/em> picture posts on Newburyport — a key inspiration for Lovecraft’s “Innsmouth” — have included Along the Innsmouth shoreline<\/a>, Newburyport \u2013 part one<\/a> and part two<\/a>. The images are now restored on these posts, after the site-move. <\/p>\n

For this week’s regular ‘Picture Postals’ post I wondered if, some four years later, other pictures had become available? They had.<\/p>\n

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For context, above we see Newburyport showings its relation to its salt marshes and ocean coastline, on a U.S. Geological Survey map of 1934. Newbury and Ipswich are just south of this map.<\/p>\n

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This fine picture I found is probably fairly close to what the ‘local bus to Innsmouth’, which features in the famous tale, would have looked like. This combination carrier \/ bus is destined for a working life around Newbury, just south of Newburyport and in the middle of the marshes. The picture looks like it’s about the right time-period too.<\/p>\n

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Curious doings at Newburyport. A pamphlet by the aptly named H.P. Davis. Probably the same as the interior of haunted schoolroom in the photo I found and fixed in 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On the Rocks, off Plum Island.<\/p>\n

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A curious Marsh Scene, Plum Island. Not one of the early pre-Photoshop montage ‘farm cards’.<\/p>\n

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School Street, Newburyport.<\/p>\n

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Inn Street. Newburyport.<\/p>\n

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An unusual garden, at the back of the High Street, Newburyport.<\/p>\n

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A (the?) tug-boat, Newburyport. 1930s?<\/p>\n

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And finally, readers will recall the U.S. submarine in “Innsmouth”. I couldn’t find one off Newburyport, but here’s one off the relatively nearby Newport.<\/p>\n

Well, those are some newly found ‘picture postals’ that seem to chime with elements \/ atmospheres in Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth” (1931).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Previous Tentaclii picture posts on Newburyport — a key inspiration for Lovecraft’s “Innsmouth” — have included Along the Innsmouth shoreline, …<\/p>\n

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