Browse Items (37 total)

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  Line of crab meat pickers, c. 1955

  Line of Sockwell Crab Meat Co. employees work at picking crabs and filling cans with the meat.

  Tags Factory workers, Fishing industry, Food industry, Packing plants
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  Crab fisherman at dock, c. 1955

  Scene at Sockwell Crab Meat Co. docks. A fisherman helps move a barrel likely filled with his haul of crab while a Sockwell employee stands above the fisherman and lifts the barrel onto the dock using a pulley system.

  Tags Fishermen, Fishing industry, Rowboats, Waterways
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  Crab meat processing, c. 1955

  Sockwell Crab Meat Co. employee at work. Damaged negative.

  Tags African Americans, Fishing industry, Food industry, Packing plants
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  Line of crab meat pickers, c. 1955

  Line of Sockwell Crab Meat Co. employees at work filling cans with the meat from crabs. Damaged negative.

  Tags Factory workers, Fishing industry, Food industry, Packing plants
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  Crab meat processing, c. 1955

  Sockwell Crab Meat Co. employees at work. Damaged negative.

  Tags Crabs, Fishing industry, Food industry, Packing plants
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  Crab boiling vat, c. 1955

  Sockwell Crab Meat Co. employee pulls back the lid of a large crab boiling vat. Damaged negative.

  Tags Factory workers, Fishing industry, Food industry, Packing plants
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  Crab fisherman, c. 1955

  Crab fisherman pulls a trap onto his row boat. Damaged negative.

  Tags Crabs, Fish traps, Fishermen, Fishing industry
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  Crab trap, c. 1955

  Fisherman holds up a trap filled with blue crabs from the Indian River. Fisherman catching crabs for the Sockwell Crab Meat Co. Damaged negative.

  Tags Crabs, Fish traps, Fishermen, Fishing industry
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  Retrieving crab trap, c. 1955

  Fisherman retrieves a crab trap from the waters of the Indian River. Sockwell Crab Meat Co. building in the background. Damaged negative.

  Tags Crabs, Fish traps, Fishermen, Fishing industry
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  Sockwell Crab Meat Co. plant, c. 1955

  The Sockwell Crab Meat Co. plant in Vero Beach, on the west bank of the Indian River. The company was started by Herb Sockwell in the 1940s and by the 1960s, it was processing over 5,000 pounds of blue crab meat per day. Damaged negative.

  Tags Buildings, Fishing industry, Packing plants