Title: The River Fisheries of the Atlantic States.
Source: The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, By George Brown Goode. Plate # 157.
Publisher: Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
Date: 1887
Artist: drawing by Henry Wood Elliott (1846-1930). Elliott was an American watercolor painter, author, and environmentalist whose work primarily focused on Alaskan subjects.
Production technique: engraving.
Engraver: unspecified.
Location: Winyah Bay, South Carolina.
Subjects: A sturgeon camp on Winyah Bay, South Carolina; catching sturgeon in gill-nets; the pound for keeping fish alive; unheading; saving roe for caviare.
Paper dimensions: 11 1/4" by 8 7/8"
Image dimensions: 10" by 4 7/8"
Condition: Good. Age-toned. Some blemishes, including significant speckling in upper left. Crease in upper right corner.