"Italian Fishermen at T-Wharf" Boston, Massachusetts, undated

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Collection Type

  • Photography

Date

undated

Location Note

Special Photographs > Massachusetts > Boston > T Wharf

GUSN

GUSN-362854

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Description

Photographic print of Italian fishermen, likely Sicilian, selling their catch fresh off the boats, at T-Wharf in Boston. The man holding a fish in the foreground makes a Southern Italian hand gesture to someone outside of the frame. Taken in the early twentieth century.

Details

Descriptive Terms

immigrants
people by occupation
wharves
working class
selling
fishmongers
clothing
men (male humans)
photographic prints
black-and-white photography

Additional Identification Number

copy negative 9484B

Physical Descrption

1 black and white print

Collection Code

PC001

Collection Name

General photographic collection

Date of Acquisition

1933

Reference Code

PC001.02.03.002

Date Notes

Circa 1900-1910

Credit Line

Gift of William Sumner Appleton, 1933

Places

Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)

Record Details

Originator

Attributed to Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940 (Photographer)

Material Type

photographic prints
black-and-white photography

Subjects

Work
Fisherman

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Special Photographs > Massachusetts > Boston > T Wharf

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