Gloucester Mass Harbor Stereoviews

A MAJOR PART OF GLOUCESTER'S HISTORY IS CENTERED AROUND THE HARBOR. MANY PEOPLE MADE THEIR LIVING AS PART OF THE FISHING INDUSTRY. SOME WERE THE FISHERMEN WHO RISKED -- SACRIFICED IN SOME CASES -- THEIR LIVES YEAR AFTER YEAR, GOING OUT AS PART OF THE GEORGES FLEET TO VARIOUS FISHING LOCATIONS FOR COD, HALIBUT AND MACKEREL. MANY OTHERS WORKED ON THE WHARVES SORTING, CLEANING AND PACKING FISH FOR MARKET. THE SCENIC BEAUTY OF THIS ACTIVE HARBOR WAS CAPTURED FROM MANY ANGLES, INCLUDING WHEN IT SOMETIMES FROZE SOLID IN THE WINTER.

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Five Pound island, looking across fish businesses and fishing vessel	Gloucester Harbor, Duncan's Point, flakes and pinkey	packing mackerel, fish flakes and sorting fish views	several views showing scenes of dories and fish houses	three Rollins cards showing Gloucester Harbor from aerial views

Underwood and Keystone views of fish preparations	Rollins, Procter Brothers and Cook & Friend views if vessels	several Cook & Friend views of fishing vessels	scenes showing different views of fishing vessels	Rollins fishing vessels and fishing vessel leaving harbor

two scenes of the frozen harbor by Procter Brothers	Procter Brothers and Heywood showing frozen harbor in 1875	more views of Gloucester's vessels caught in ice	two unlabeled Cook & Friend harbor scenes	Moulton and others show the busy harbor from many locations

Lobster Cove and boys in a dory	additional views of harbor areas	the dories Centennial and Little Western both sailed from Gloucester to Great Britain	examples of period vessels, two being launched	views of the Gloucester display at the 1876 Exposition