Interior view of a fish market with hanging scales and barrels – Vintage Photo Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Interior view of a fish market with hanging scales and barrels. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Interior view of a fish market with hanging scales and barrels
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Hanging scales and rows of barrels fill the foreground of this view, which points to a trading floor where goods were weighed and sold by the measure rather than by sight. Fish markets of this kind were common in working harbor towns through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when catches were landed, weighed and sold in the same building before dawn. Barrels were the standard containers for salted and packed fish, so their stacking here suggests a space built around preserving and shipping as much as selling. Note how the scales hang from the rafters, a practical arrangement that kept heavy weights off the counters and let buyers and sellers read the balance at a glance.
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,369 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif12772_InteriorviewoftheFultonFishMar |
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