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Fishing and clamming equipment against delapidated wall, Biddeford Pool, Maine, 1883

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

1883

GUSN

GUSN-191262

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Description

Large photograph printed on a thin tissue paper. The image features an assortment of nets, buckets, anchors, oars, sails and a hull all piled in front of a delapidated building. It appears that there is a fish market on the right side of the image.

Details

Descriptive Terms

fishing
nets (objects)
oars
sails
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Physical Description

1 photograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.02.03.TMP.040

Image Dimensions

4.75 x 7.5 (HxW)(inches)

Places

Biddeford (York county, Maine)

Record Details

Originator

Coolidge, Baldwin, 1845-1928 (Photographer)

Material Type

black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs

Subjects

Clams
Clamming

Accruals Note

W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 22-23.Original in Special Photos - Geographic - Biddeford Pool, Maine [No such file in drawer, possibly Special Photos - Geographic - Maine ?]

Description Level

Item

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