Unloading oysters

photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
Van Ark, Carroll
USA, NY, Greenport
1945
7.75 x 9.88 x 0

Photo, oystering (Bluepoints Co., Inc. Coll., W. Sayville, NY); unloading oyster, Bluepoints Co., Inc., Greenport, L.I., 1945, dredger on deck, rubberstamped on back "PHOTO BY/ CARROLL VAN ARK". Caption attached to picture: "UNLOADING OYSTERS -- At the Bluepoints plant at Greenport is a matter of shoveling them from deck to conveyor system. The boats tie-up at the pier and the conveyors can be lowered onto the deck of each boat."

UNIDENTIFIED oyster dredge
1978.152.247