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Story: The Glouster Fisherman, 1942 by Howard Liberman

39 photos

On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. Winch control men intent on seeing to it that the proper amount of cable is let out at the proper spot

On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. View of choppy waters

Gloucester, Massachusetts. At sunset fishermen mend nets torn by rocks on the ocean floor. A shortage of linen twine and manila hemp needed for nets is only one of the war-time difficulties fishermen today must face

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Two Gloucester fishermen on a fishing boat

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Portrait of a fisherman

On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. Man at he winch control

Gloucester, Massachusetts. A woman shore worker in the fish packing industry eating her lunch

On board a fishing vessel, out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. A winch control man

On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. A Nantucket dragger, or New England type otter trawler, the "Theresa and Dan"(?)

Gloucester, Massachusetts. A shore worker engaged in the fish packing industry

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Captain John Riberia on the fishing trawler "Old Glory"

Gloucester, Massachusetts. A fisherman

Gloucester, Massachusetts. A fisherman

On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. Looking over the record of the day's unloading of fish

Gloucester, Massachusetts. A young boy, probably a fisherman of tomorrow, because many of the boys will follow their fathers as fishermen in the New England waters

Gloucester, Massachusetts. A lookout climbs the cables high above "Old Glory's" deck to check the location of other trawlers. When one trawler strikes good fishing ground the captain notifies other boats in the fleet

On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. Operating the winch

On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. Operating the winch

On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. Fisherman with a codfish

Gloucester, Massachusetts. "Food for Victory" fishing. Hauling fish in a cart from the wharfside to a fish packing plant

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Shoveling fish into the rotary scaler at a fish packing plant

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Captain John Riberia on the fishing trawler "Old Glory"

On board a fishing vessel out from Gloucester, Massachusetts. Fishermen on the deck washing up with a hose

Gloucester, Massachusetts. Muscles strain as husky fishermen of Portuguese descent pull nets on board the "Old Glory". Their haul is rosefish, a species now used in large quantities by the armed forces