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[Portland, Me., drying fishermen's nets] – Antique Wall Art

[Portland, Me., drying fishermen's nets], [between 1900 and 1920] — historic photograph
[Portland, Me., drying fishermen's nets], [between 1900 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Portland, Me., drying fishermen's nets], preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Nets hung to dry along the wharves of Portland, Maine, make this plate stand apart from the harbor views that fill much of the Detroit Publishing Company's output. The glass negative, eight by ten inches, was made sometime between 1900 and 1920, when the company's photographers traveled the country documenting towns, rail lines, and working waterfronts for commercial postcards and lantern slides. Drying nets were a daily sight in fishing ports of that era, since cotton and hemp seines had to be aired and mended after each haul. The picture gives a useful record of how a working harbor operated before mechanized trawling changed the trade.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 073466. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsFishing industry. Piers & wharves. Waterfronts.United States--Maine--Portland.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 784 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74311

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