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[Busy scene on fish pier, Hull, England. Men cleaning fish on pier beside trawler] – Antique Print

[Busy scene on fish pier, Hull, England. Men cleaning fish on pier beside trawler] — historic photograph
[Busy scene on fish pier, Hull, England. Men cleaning fish on pier beside trawler]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Men gut and clean fish on the quay at Hull, England, with a trawler tied up alongside, a scene that captures the working rhythm of one of Britain's great fishing ports around 1953. Hull's docks were among the busiest in the country for landing cod, haddock and other catch from the North Sea, and the fish were handled largely by hand on the pier before being packed and sent inland by rail and road. The photograph offers a glimpse of that labor-intensive trade in the decades after the Second World War, when the port was still a major center of the industry.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesca. 1953.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,200 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119727

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