Boarding a fishing schooner – Vintage Print
(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 rare historic photograph captures Boarding a fishing schooner in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Boarding a fishing schooner
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Men step across from a dock onto the deck of a fishing schooner in this c1903 view, one of the many scenes the Detroit Publishing Company made of working waterfronts. The company, based in Detroit, produced a huge range of views for postcards and travel books, and its photographers often used large-format cameras and hand-colored processes to capture everyday commerce. Fishing schooners of this period were sturdy two- and three-masted vessels that carried catch and crew along the Atlantic coast and Great Lakes, so the scene offers a glimpse of a trade that depended on wooden hulls and manual labor. The record is based on an old caption card and is unverified, so the exact location is best treated as uncertain.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Fishing; Sailing ships. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,216 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-144809 |
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