Fisherwomen Collection

Newhaven fishwives
Four fisherwomen dressed in traditional clothing. Date: late 1890s

A group of women standing over a couple of barrels cleaning fish. Date: 1908

Photograph showing a group of Scottish women standing over the barrels that are being packed with herring in brine, ready for export. Date: November1901

Scottish lasses knitting jerseys for the fishermen during their dinner hour. Date: November 1912

Herring Harvest in Great Yarmouth 1934
A small group of the 2, 000 Scottish herring gutters which came to Great Yarmouth in the October to earn some money. Date: October 1934

Scottish Fisher-Women in Great Yarmouth 1932
Scottish fisher lassies who came to Great Yarmouth for the herring harvest, sharing their biscuits with the lucky crew of the Cornstalk. Date: October 1932

Scottish Fisher-Woman in Great Yarmouth 1932
One of the 3, 000 Scottish women that came every year to Great Yarmouth in the herring harvest to gut fish in the months of October and November. Date: October 1932

Herring Harvest in Great Yarmouth 1932
Some of the 3, 000 Scottish women which could gut about forty fish a minute, arrived on the east coast of Great Yarmouth. Date: October 1932

One of the thousands of Scottish women that came to Great Yarmouth in the herring harvest to pack and gut fish in the months of October and November. Date: November 1910

Scotch Herring Women Workers 1902
Towns of Yarmouth and Lowesoft in the East Anglian ports were full of women from Scotland, coming down to help with the herring harvest in October and November

Newhaven fishermen and fishwives 1862
A group of fishermen and fishwives in typical clothing worn at that time. 1862

Shoal of mackerel 1873
Fishermen bringing in their fresh catch of mackerel. Date: 1873

Scene at Berck-sur-Mer, Pas de Calais, Northern France, with fisherwomen in the sea with their nets, hunting for prawns. 1922

Dunkirk, France - fishing for shrimps
Dunkirk, France - four women and a man with large nets fishing for shrimps. Date: circa 1910s

Malo-les-Bains, France - women fishing for shrimp
Malo-les-Bains, France - two women fishing for shrimp sieve through shallow water with large nets on poles. circa 1910s

French fisherwoman in traditional dress
French fisherwoman in traditional costume, holding a large rolled up fishing net. circa 1910s

Herring Harvest, Yarmouth
Yarmouth - The Herring Harvest. The largest herring port in the country in 1921, with Scottish girls working at the fisheries in the autumn Date: 1921

Japan - The Dance of the Fisherwomen - The Views of Tojinbo Date: 1912

Fisherwomen - Vietnam Date: 1910s

Boulogne-sur-Mer, France - Lifeboat, Bathers and Fisherwoman
Boulogne-sur-Mer, France - Lifeboat, Bathers and example of the traditional local costume worn by Fisherwomen, featuring a sun headdress. Date: circa 1910s

Southwold, Suffolk - Scottish fisher girls at work Date: circa 1910s

Le Touquet - Shrimp fisherwomen
Shrimp fishing at Le Touquet, France. Five teenage girls carrying rolled-up fishing nets, designed to catch shrimp

Racial / Japan / Fisherwomen
Two Japanese fisherwomen

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