• 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 # 159.
  • 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: Neuse River, North Carolina.
  • Subjects: Skim-net fishing for shad in the Neuse River, North Carolina.
  • Paper dimensions:  11 1/4" by 8 7/8"
  • Image dimensions: 10" by 5 7/8"
  • Condition: Very good. Age-toned. Minor blemishes. Light creasing in upper corners.