Codfish Collection

Drying and salting fish in colonial Maine
First settlers of Maine drying and salting fish on the Atlantic shore. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Cod fishing with hand lines, 1800s
Cod fishermen hauling in hand-lines from the deck of a boat on the North Atlantic, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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North Atlantic cod-fishing in the 1880s Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Fish market at a Norwegian port, 1880s
Fishermen selling their fresh cod in Bergen, Norway, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Atlantic codfish
Cod specimen collected at Eastport, Maine, by the US Fish Commission, 1872. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Cod fishermen drying and salting fish on the Newfoundland coast, 1700s. Hand-colored woodcut

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Dories racing for a school of fish, Atlantic Ocean, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Fishermen in a dory on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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