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Description
The fishing boat Novelty, owned and captained by Hanson P. Joyce, docked at D.L. Fernald & Co., a fish inspection station at Union Wharf. In 1886, it faced a dispute when British authorities at Pictou, Nova Scotia, denied it coal and, according to the ship's captain, mail at Tignish, Prince Edward Island.
The incidents attracted the attention of U.S. Secretary of State (1885-89) Thomas F. Bayard, who made American fishing rights in Canadian waters a focus of his career.
This image was included in an album by William S. Edwards. Written beneath is "Str. Novelty at Union Wharf. Feb. 21, 1887."
About This Item
- Title: The fishing steamer "Novelty," Union Wharf, Portland, 1887
- Creation Date: 1887-02-21
- Subject Date: 1887-02-21
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 11.4 cm x 18.4 cm
- Collection: Edwards Album
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Casco Bay (Me.)--History.
- Fishing boats--Maine--History
- Portland (Me.)
- Union Wharf (Portland, Me.)
- Architecture, commercial--Maine--Portland
- Historic buildings--Maine--Portland
- Piers and wharves--Maine--Portland
- Union Wharf (Portland, Me.)--Photographs
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- cabinet of Grover Cleveland
- D.L. Fernald & Co.
- fish inspection
- fish packing
- fishing boats
- fishing rights
- Hanson B. Joyce
- Novelty (ship)
- Pictou
- steamships
- Thomas F. Bayard
- Tignish
- treaties
- Tugboat
- U.S. Secretaries of State
- Union Wharf
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City of Portland - Planning & Development389 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 756-8023
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