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Stringing herring at McCurdy's Smokehouse, Lubec, ca. 1964

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MMN Item 33330 Item Details
Stringing herring at McCurdy's Smokehouse, Lubec, ca. 1964
MMN Item 33330 Zoom

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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