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John Collier Jr. - Photographer, Digby County

Fishing boat used to recover herring scales for artificial pearls. Pumps suck herring from weirs up into white painted tank, right, where the scales are removed by suction, and then the fish are pumped out into a waiting boat that collects the scaled fis

Photographer: John Collier Jr.

Reference: Alexander H. Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1988-413 negative number 1031-d

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