• Item: original antique plate
  • 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.