File:FMIB 47729 Iron cooker or 'kettle,' the usual apparatus employed in steaming hard crabs.jpeg

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English: E. P. Churchill Jr.
Description
English: Iron cooker or 'kettle,' the usual apparatus employed in steaming hard crabs

The baskets of crabs are hoisted in and out of the cooker by means of the crane. The tongs hanging on the upright post are used in picking out individual living crabs in case any sorting of the catch is desired

  • Subject: Crab fisheries, Cookery (Crabs)
  • Geographic Subject: Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
  • Tag: Fisheries Techniques
Date 1920.00
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
English: Freshwater and Marine Image Bank
Accession number
47729
Source/Photographer
English: Churchill, E. P. Jr. (1920) Crab industry of Chesapeake Bay, Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the Fiscal Year 1918, with Appendixes, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
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Public domain This is a photograph from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank at the University of Washington. Materials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.

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