Man in cap showing a large striped bass at market – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Man in cap showing a large striped bass at market. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Man in cap showing a large striped bass at market
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A fisherman in a cap holds up a large striped bass, its silver body and dark horizontal stripes plainly visible, as if to show a buyer its size. Market scenes like this one were common along American coastal towns through the late 1800s and early 1900s, when fish were sold fresh from the boat or wagon and the weight and length of a catch served as a sign of its quality. The striped bass, prized on both the Atlantic seaboard and in the Chesapeake, was a staple of those markets. Look closely at the man's hands and the way he grips the fish, which tell you as much about the work of selling a day's catch as the fish itself does.
| Original scan | 3,338 × 4,092 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif12779_SalLeggioshowingalargestripped |
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