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26803 "Skinning the Sharks" - a Phase of Florida's Fish Industry, Key West, Florida

ca. 1900

Key West, Monroe County, Florida, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This stereograph card depicts a group of men on a dock skinning sharks. The stereograph card consists of two similar images side by side, with the images in the center of the card. At either end of the card is vertical script. On the left side margin is script that reads "Keystone View Company/ copyrighted/ Manufacturers/ Made in U.S.A/ Publishers." On the right side margin is script that reads "Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y., / Chicago, Ill., London, England." Along the bottom right margin is text that reads "26803 "Skinning the Sharks"- a Phase of Florida's/ Fish Industry, Key West." There is text on the back.

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Catalog reference: 2015.248.4.12

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