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Aboard a trawler. Selecting fish and cutting off heads. Only mackerel, whiting, and occasional flounder or halibut are kept. Thrown from trough into ice-filled hold. Fish heads and non-marketable fish are thrown into sea, above which hundreds of sea gulls wait hungrily. Provincetown, Massachusetts
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Aboard a trawler. Selecting fish and cutting off heads. Only mackerel, whiting, and occasional flounder or halibut are kept. Thrown from trough into ice-filled hold. Fish heads and non-marketable fish are thrown into sea, above which hundreds of sea gulls wait hungrily. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Rosskam, Edwin · 1937-01-01 · photo, print, drawing

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provincetownnitrate negativesmassachusettsunited statesbarnstable county
Credit lineAboard a trawler. Selecting fish and cutting off heads. Only mackerel, whiting, and occasional flounder or halibut are kept. Thrown from trough into ice-filled hold. Fish heads and non-marketable fish. 1937-01-01. Rosskam, Edwin. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress. Public domain.
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