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Fish market

Description

A painted sign depicting an interior view of a fish market hangs above the entrance to a fish market in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Various kinds of fish and a mackerel shark are on display as well as clams in baskets.

Details

Descriptive Terms

fish markets
paintings (visual works)
business (commercial function)
stereographs
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 001354
AccessID 2119
Other identifier HNEDID-001354

Physical Description

1 stereograph

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Reference Code

PC001.04.01.USMA.1270.0240.001

Places

Newburyport (Essex county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

McIntosh, H. P. (Photographer)

Material Type

stereographs
photographs

Subjects

cod (fish)
Mackerel sharks
Clams

Accruals Note

W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 40.

Description Level

Item

Publisher Series

Views of Newburyport and vicinity

Location Note

Stereo views - Massachusetts - Newburyport.

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