Commercial Fishing Collection

Whaling ship diagram, 1800s
Deck plan and cutaway view of whaling schooner " Amelia" of New Bedford, Massachusetts, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Fishing boats unloading in London, 1800s
Landing fish at Billingsgate Market, London, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Tuna fishing using nets, 1800s
Fishing boats circling a school of tuna to catch them in nets, 1800s. 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

Harpooning a whale, 1800s
Whalers in longboats lancing a whale with harpoons, 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Fishermen using nets, 1800s
Fishing boat hauling in nets by moonlight, 1850s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Long boat crew harpooning a whale. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustratioin

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South Sea whaling in the 1800s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Longboats pursuing a whale, 1800s
Longboats racing to harpoon a whale. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Sampling the Maryland oyster catch, 1800s
Oyster buyer tasting a sample on the dock in Baltimore, Maryland, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illusttration

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

Thar she blows
Whaling schooner lookout calling, " There she blows!" Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Salmon cannery on the Pacific coast at Astoria, Oregon, 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

Chinese immigrants working at a salmon cannery in Oregon
Chinese-Americans working at the Kinney Salmon Cannery in Astoria, Oregon, 1880s. Engraving of a 19th-century illustration

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Nantucket sleigh-ride in which a longboat is pulled by a harpoon line lodged in a whale. 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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