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Image: Samuel bunker (circa 1845)

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Description: Portrait of Captain Samuel Bunker of Siasconset, Nantucket, oil on canvas, unsigned, circa 1845, with ship on horizon. Typed and signed note verso reads "Portrait of Captain Samuel Bunker, my great grandfather of Nantucket, Mass. Captain of Nantucket Shoals Lightship until it broke loose in a blizzard and drifted to the shore of Long Island. First Keeper of Sankaty Light on Nantucket Island and was commissioned by the government to select the lens from Paris.
Title: Samuel bunker (circa 1845)
Credit: Own work
Author: Baldwin Book
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
License Link: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
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