"'Picking' Crabs for Market, on Banks of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland"

c. 1900

Keystone View Company

Associated Names
Keystone View Company

Artist, American, 1892 - 1963

This is a photograph of a large table filled with crabs. The scene shows an outdoor setting with wooden structures. The focus is on a table piled with crabs in the foreground, with baskets of additional crab meat visible. The photograph is formatted as a stereoscopic image. The overall tone is sepia. Labels and text on the image indicate it is from the Keystone View Company, located on the banks of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, USA. The environment suggests a scene related to seafood harvesting.
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Provenance

Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

along left edge of mount printed in black ink: Keystone View Company / COPYRIGHTED / Manufacturers MADE IN U. S. A. Publishers; top center: 162; along right edge: Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., / Chicago, Ill., London, England.; bottom right: 6893-"Picking" Crabs for Market, on Banks of Chesapeake / Bay, Md., U. S. A.; on verso, by Ross Kelbaugh, top right in graphite: 24.10.RJQX / AF068A

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