Streets--Maryland--Crisfield; Architecture, Domestic--Maryland--Crisfield; African Americans--Maryland--Crisfield; Bank buildings--Maryland--Crisfield; Electric lines--Poles and towers--Maryland--Crisfield;...
Photograph of 10th Street in downtown Crisfield, Maryland. On the right is an African American couple walking along Tenth Street toward Main Street. To their right is a one-story corrugated metal building with Coca-Cola signs on its front wall and...
Fishery processing plants--Maryland--Crisfield;Fishery processing plants--Employees--Maryland--Crisfield;African American women employees--Maryland--Crisfield;Canned crab meat--Maryland--Crisfield
Photograph of crab meat being weighed and packed in cans at a seafood processing plant in Crisfield, Maryland. Four African American women sit at a table, facing a brick wall and picking steamed hard-shelled blue crabs. Two Caucasian men weigh and...
Photograph of crabs being packed in ice at a seafood processing plant in Crisfield, Maryland. In the foreground is an African American man packing the crabs in ice in bushel baskets or barrels. In the background stand several men and women near a...
Fishery processing plants--Maryland--Crisfield;Fishery processing plants--Employees--Maryland--Crisfield;Crabs--Processing--Maryland--Crisfield;African American men--Maryland--Crisfield
Photograph of the crab steaming room at a seafood processing plant in Crisfield, Maryland. During the operation, this African American man using a hand crank and pulley will lift the large metal basket, which will be filled with live hard-shelled...
Fishery processing plants--Maryland--Crisfield;African American women employees--Maryland--Crisfield;Canned crab meat--Maryland--Crisfield;Crab meat--Preservation
Photograph of crab pickers at a seafood processing plant in Crisfield, Maryland. African American women sit around huge tables that contain piles of steamed hard-shelled blue crabs, picking the meat from the crabs and depositing it into small metal...
United States. Works Progress Administration.; Crisfield (Md.); Somerset County (Md.); Oyster culture;
Photograph documenting WPA Project Number 531. Typed text on label on back of photograph reads: "Works Progress Administration of Maryland, Division of Operations. Crisfield, Somerset County. The planting of oyster shells. The shells being hauled...
Advertising; Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.); Fishing; Radio programs; Tournament fishing;
Brochure entitled the Chesapeake Bay Fishing Fair Guide number 7, published in 1940 and featuring the grand contest held on August 10-11, 1940 at a town touted as the seafood capitol of the U.S.A., Crisfield, Maryland.
