Men handling salted fish on a dock by barrels – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Men handling salted fish on a dock by barrels, a historic image rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Men handling salted fish on a dock by barrels
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Dockside work on a fishing wharf is the focus here, with several men handling salted fish beside a row of barrels. Salting and barrelling were the standard ways to preserve catch before refrigeration, so fish like this could be shipped to distant markets and kept through long voyages and lean seasons. Scenes like this one show how much hand labor went into the trade, from unloading and sorting to packing and moving heavy barrels along the planks. Look at the barrels stacked at the edge of the frame to get a sense of the scale of the operation.
| Original scan | 4,107 × 3,361 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif12795_Weighingfishunloadedformdragge |
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