Gilling skiff

photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
Fleishman, Henry
USA, Delaware River
1943
paper
7 x 9 in.

Photo, snapshot; port view of gilling skiff, re-rigged, on port tack, 5 on mainsail, long bowsprit and boom, originally used for shad fishing, handwritten on back in pencil "This photo was originally the property of/ Mr. Henry Fleishmann, formerly a buyer/ for Strawbridge & Clothier, now deceased./ He sailed on the Delaware in his youth and/ was an enthusiastic amateur photographer./ He may have taken this picture./ Ned Brownlee - 1943".


UNIDENTIFIED skiff
1979.163.43

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Shad fisheries
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