The Seafood Industry photograph collection (PI/IND/S42.4) is available to view online. It shows various scenes of the seafood industry on the Gulf Coast. Click the image title to view the image or click “Link to the catalog” to view that image’s catalog record.
- Priest blessing the fleet at Biloxi. Call Number: PI/IND/S42.4. Link to the catalog.
- “Oyster Schooners” on the Pass Christian, Miss. Reefs. Call Number: PI/IND/S42.4. Link to the catalog.
- Oyster Schooners. Call Number: PI/IND/S42.4. Link to the catalog.
- Unloading oysters. Call Number: PI/IND/S42.4. Link to the catalog.
- A view of the East End section of the seafood canneries. Biloxi is the world’s largest packer of shrimp and oysters. Call Number: PI/IND/S42.4. Link to the catalog.
- Docked boats and oyster shells. Call Number: PI/IND/S42.4. Link to the catalog.
- Unloading oysters. Call Number: PI/IND/S42.4. Link to the catalog.
- In port (pictured above). Call Number: PI/IND/S42.4. Link to the catalog.
- Unloading oysters. Call Number: PI/IND/S42.4. Link to the catalog.
- Oyster Schooners. Call Number: PI/IND/S42.4. Link to the catalog.
- Biloxi, on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, cans half of the nation’s oyster pack each year. This scene shows one of the oyster schooners arriving at a seafood factory pier to have cargo unloaded. Call Number: PI/IND/S42.4. Link to the catalog.
- A picturesque nook in the historic Back Bay harbor at Biloxi, Miss., showing oyster schooners at anchor. Biloxi cans more than fifty percent of the Nations’s oyster pack. Call Number: PI/IND/S42.4. Link to the catalog.
- Lookout calling (strike) pictured above. Call Number: PI/IND/S42.4. Link to the catalog.