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Description
The Emery family weir in Eastport, caught up to 1,000 hogsheads of fish and cost $5,000.
The photographer, Fred G. Milliken, submitted his photographs and stories to the Atlantic Fisherman, a magazine concerned with commercial fishing.
About This Item
- Title: Emery family weir, Eastport, ca. 1930
- Creator: Fred G. Milliken
- Creation Date: circa 1930
- Subject Date: circa 1930
- Location: Eastport, Washington County, ME
- Media: Photoprint
- Dimensions: 8 cm x 13 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1670, Env. 3
- Collection: Atlantic Fisherman correspondence, photographs, and news articles
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Emery Family (Eastport, Me.)
- Fish nets--Maine--Eastport
- Fish traps--Maine--Eastport
- Fishing industry--Maine--Eastport
- Weirs--1930-1940--Photographs
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