Fish being hauled in onto Ellery Thompson's boat Eleanor (Stonington area) | CT Digital Archive

Image

Metadata

Handle

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5390

Persons

Persons

Creator (cre): Sweet, Gordon

Title

Title

Fish being hauled in onto Ellery Thompson's boat Eleanor (Stonington area)

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Origin Information

Date Created	1945

Parent Item

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Resource Type

Digital Origin

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

Description

A net full of fish is being hauled in onto a vessel identified as Ellery Thompson's dragger Eleanor, probably off Stonington.

Genre

Genre

Subject

Subject

Boats and boating

Fisheries -- Equipment and supplies

Eleanor (Dragger)

Geographic Subject

Geographic Subject

Stonington (Conn.)

Extent

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : silver print ; 6 7/8 x 7 1/2 in.

Held By

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Use and Reproduction

Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Photography Department, Mystic Seaport, Mystic.

Note

Note

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Livelihood

Note	Title supplied by cataloger. Mystic-born Ellery Thompson was a fisherman, artist and writer. He captained draggers out of Stonington for a number of years. Thompson was a local celebrity, noted for his paintings, storytelling and writings, which included Draggerman's Haul (1950) a memoir of his maritime adventures.

Local Identifier

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1989.108.6

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