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Shad fishing (taking up the net.) [graphic] : On the Delaware opposite Philada. Glo'ster bleaching mills in the distance. / From nature and on stone by James Queen.
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Creator
Queen, James Fuller, 1820 or 21-1886, lithographer.
Contributor
Printer P.S. Duval & Co., printer.
Title
Shad fishing (taking up the net.) [graphic] : On the Delaware opposite Philada. Glo'ster bleaching mills in the distance. / From nature and on stone by James Queen.
Publisher
Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Co. steam lith press,
Date
[1855]
Extent
1 print: lithograph, hand-colored; 28 x 34 cm. (11 x 13.25 in.)
Description
View of several fishermen, including African American men, most waist deep in the river and all but one in a semi-circle, gathering up their catch into a rowboat. A Philadelphia pier lined with residences, the mills of Gloucester, New Jersey, and sailboats on the river are visible in the foreground and background.
Notes
Manuscript note on recto: April- May 1855.
Genre
Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1860.
Subject
Shad fishing--Pennsylvania.
Fishing nets--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
African American men--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Mills--New Jersey--Gloucester.
Spatial coverage
Delaware River (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Is part of
Wainwright Philadelphia Lithographs
Is referenced by
Wainwright 335.
Has format
TMP.objres.4593.jpg
Related resource
http://www.lcpgraphics.org/wainwright/W335.htm
Call number
Library Company of Philadelphia Print Dept. *W335 [P.2189]
Accession number
P.2189
In Collections
Wainwright Lithograph Collection
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