"The old Mormon Printing Office, now the Gibson House, at Saint James" — plate from A Child of the Sea (1905)

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Date: 1905
Concepts: Strang eramormonismarchitecturesettlement

The old Mormon Printing Office, now the Gibson House, at Saint James" — plateWikimedia Commons (per-file credit in the sidecar) · Public domain

A plate from Elizabeth Whitney Williams’s A Child of the Sea (1905), showing the former Mormon printing office at St. James in its later use as the Gibson House. The building survives and now holds the Beaver Island Historical Society’s museum.

Sources

Wikimedia Commons, "The old Mormon Printing Office, now the Gibson House, at Saint James" — plate from A Child of the Sea (1905)
Opened: a two-part clapboard building with a verandah, figures on the porch and a picket fence, consistent with the caption.
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Beaver Island Archive, “"The old Mormon Printing Office, now the Gibson House, at Saint James" — plate from A Child of the Sea (1905)”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/williams-1905-plate-mormon-printing-office/, accessed [date], citing Wikimedia Commons, "The old Mormon Printing Office, now the Gibson House, at Saint James" — plate from A Child of the Sea (1905).

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