Atlantic Fisherman

Frank Nunan ran his “Fisherman’s Supply Store” on his pier on Spicer’s Island, Cape Porpoise, ca. 1935. Catalog Number LB1992.301.32

Glendon Lowe of Corea, with a basket of lobsters. Published February 1955. Catalog Number LB1992.301.185

Wilbur Morse’s photograph was published as part of an article on the dragger Nautilus

Frank Finnerty, a lobsterman from Peaks Island, painting his lobster boat on the beach.

Clifford Colson and Roy Scofield, lobstermen from Corea, pose after a day on the water, tin lunch pails in hand. Ca.1955. Catalog Number LB1992.301.220

Captain Henry Jones of South Bristol poses for a series on his new lobster boat

Successful businessman Richard Feyler poses as part of a major article on Rockland’s Seafood Festiva

To the right of the working crew stand John Noyes, foreman, and George L. Higgins

Herring fishermen with a dory filled with herring, probably taken in Eastport about 1935 by Alfred Elden. Catalog Number LB1995.72.155

Photojournalist Alfred Elden took several photographs of Muscongus Islanders

McDougall & Keefe were Boothbay postcard publishers

A fisherman shows off an obsolete hoop net to photojournalist Alfred Elden.

Eastport photojournalist Fred Milliken must have worked with a retired fisherman for this photograph. Catalog Number LB1995.72.213

“A real daughter of the sea.” Mrs. Mitchell “was brought up on the salt water

Capt. Black, “he with the mittens”, caught this 62 lb. cod