Stringing herring at McCurdy's Smokehouse, Lubec, ca. 1964
Contributed by Lubec Landmarks
Description
In the Pickling Shed, workers carried out the second step in the smokehouse process: putting herring on sticks through their gills. The photographer used a strobe light to capture the swift arm motion of one of the “stringers.”
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