Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 316

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Carte de visite of Massachusetts river pilot Jeremiah Gunderway. Albumen photograph, 3 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches, on original mount with backmark of photographer Charles E. Rogers of South Weymouth, MA; minimal wear. With original album page captioned "Uncle Jerry Gunderway." South Weymouth, MA, circa 1870
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Jeremiah Gunderway (1787-1875) spent his life in and near the Massachusetts coastal town of Scituate, south of Boston. He was a well-known river pilot, steering the town's distinctive gundalows full of salt hay to farms along the shore. He is discussed at length in Briggs's 1887 history of the town, "History of Shipbuilding on North River," page 59, where this portrait is reproduced on the facing page. Among his accomplishments, Gunderway beat alcoholism, going without a drink for the last 40 years of his life, although he replaced that addiction with a raisin habit that sometimes exceeded half a pound a day.