Man cleaning fish at a street market stall – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Man cleaning fish at a street market stall, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Man cleaning fish at a street market stall
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A fishmonger's stall with a man cleaning fish is the focus here, and the scene places the work at street level, where fish was sold fresh to shoppers in the same hours it was caught or delivered. Markets like this were a daily fixture in many American towns before refrigerated trucking and supermarket chains reshaped food buying, so the picture doubles as a record of ordinary commerce. Look at the tools, the wet surfaces and the way the work is done in plain view of customers, which were the everyday realities of selling perishable food without modern cold storage.
| Original scan | 2,918 × 3,744 px · prints to 10 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif12696_CharlesCatalanocleaningfishath |
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