Wilcox Fertilizer Company, Mystic, Connecticut, after 1895

silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
USA, CT, Mystic
After 1895
paper
4 x 4-7/8 in.

Silver print; Wilcox Fertilizer Company, Noyes Neck, as seen from opposite shore. At left is unidentified 3-masted schooner, probably loading "fish scrap" for fertilizer. At center is vessel, resembling a catboat without a mast. At right is an oil storage tank. See Peterson, "Bony-Fish: The Menhaden Fishery at Mystic, Connecticut", Log of Mystic Seaport, Spring 1981, page 30.


UNIDENTIFIED catboat
1993.17.78

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