From collection Mount Desert Island Historical Society - Paul Stubing Ballard Print Collection
Ralph Phippen Lobstering Series
This photograph is the fourth in a series of five pictures depicting Ralph Phippen at work lobstering. In this picture the wooden trap is breaking the surface of the water. Ralph is busy "working" the trap using the hauling "arm with a pulley" on the boat's port side.
Details
1939 - 1940
Ralph Phippen Lobstering by W.H. Ballard
07/26/2007
MDIHS: Sound School House Archive Storage, Photo Album #19, p. 48
07/26/2007
09/12/2014
03/28/2022