Essex County, Massachusetts - Historic photos, documents, and people

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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 boa

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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 t

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. Striking good fishing grounds, fishermen load their boat with rosefish. Only a thin slice from each side of the rosefish is useable as food. Fish meal and fish oil are made f

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. Striking good fishing grounds, fishermen load their boat with rosefish. Only a thin slice from each side of the rosefish is useable as food. Fish meal and fish oil are made f

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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

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

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. John Riberia, captain of the fishing trawler Old Glory, kissing his wife before leaving for the fishing grounds off the Massachusetts coast

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Gloucester, Massachusetts. A whale codfish, the fish that was probably reponsible for the early explorations in this part of the country and made New England famous

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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

Essex County, Massachusetts Historic photos, documents, and people