[Woman wearing bonnet, holding rope and standing on pier; fishing boat in background] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Woman wearing bonnet, holding rope and standing on pier; fishing boat in background], c1902. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/54/54a39e57419e-L.webp)
(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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This historic photograph of [Woman wearing bonnet, holding rope and standing on pier; fishing boat in background] brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Woman wearing bonnet, holding rope and standing on pier; fishing boat in background]
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A woman in a bonnet stands on a pier with a rope in hand, and a fishing boat sits in the background, so the picture reads as a scene of working waterfront life rather than a plain portrait. The print dates to about 1902, a period when photographers often placed figures against harbor settings to suggest everyday labor and the rhythms of coastal towns. The caption is unverified, and its subject tags, which touch on women's rights, flowers and temperance, do not clearly match the scene, so the setting is the most reliable guide to what the picture shows. The photographer credited is Fritz W. Guerin, and the print is held in the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division.
| Created / published | c1902. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Photo by Fritz W. Guerin. #35. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women--Rights of women; Glamour; Flowers; Tobacco and smoking; Fishing--Misc.--1902; Temperence. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,231 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147473 |
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