"Wheel aloft"

silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Ford, Ellsworth
before 1934
paper
8 x 10 in.

Silver print by Ellsworth Ford (copyright holder); harbor with fishing boats (DOROTHY & DONILDA in foreground with wheel at top of mast) that are typical of the small craft that pursue swordfish in waters off Montauk, Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket; caption, "Wheel aloft" from "Men Fish & Boats. The Pictorial Story of the North Atlantic Fishermen", by Alfred Stanford, published by Morrow, 1934.


1964.336

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