Commercial fishing 1943-1961
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Multiple Simmons negative numbers Some of Simmon's photographs of commercial fishermen at work and their shanties and tugs. Index text: 101 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats 7/1945 Fisher Boy at dock 105 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish docks 8/1942 Old George Sewers shack 203 0/2 Saugatuck - People, Fishing 1957 Bob Peel and fish 323 0/3 Saugatuck - Fish Dock Chuck Isaacson, fish TV 325 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats Bonnie S. 332 0/3 Saugatuck - Fish Nets 5/1949 Net floats, G. Sewers 333 0/5 Saugatuck - Fish Docks, Boats 5/1959 Rickety dock, boat 324 1/1 Saugatuck - Fish Dock Unloading fish 326 0/2 Saugatuck - Fish Dock G. Sewers dock with nets 328 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats, Docks 8/1944 Reflections on water 331 0/3 Saugatuck - Fish Shacks 9/23/45 Back door of shack 334 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Docks 5/1949 Coils of rope 335 0/3 Saugatuck - Fish Nets 8/1944 Washing nets 336 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Shacks 1/1946 Shacks in winter 338 0/5 Saugatuck - Fish Boats Capitol, with trawlers TV 340 1/1 saugatuck - Fish Boats 9/4/1949 On river 341 0/2 Saugatuck - Fish Boats 11/1957 Docked on river, winter 343 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats 5/1944 Fisher Boy 342 0/1 saugatuck - Fish Boats Bonnie S. [tug is not Bonnie S.] 344 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats Joann 345 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats, docks 6/1958 Sewers dock 347 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish docks 10/1943 Diepenhorst docks 348 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish docks 8/1943 High water, flooded shacks 349 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish docks, boats 8/1944 Frank Sewers, other fishermen 350 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats 1961 Trawlers 351 0/10 Saugatuck - Fish Boats, docks 1961 Capitol, fish pump 352 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats 8/1943 Addison Sr. 353 0/6 Saugatuck - Fish Nets 1947 Boiling nets, Jack Sewers, Marv Demerest 355 0/4 Saugatuck - Fish boats 8/1958 Fish tug 356 2/2 Saugatuck - Fish shacks 5/1949 Doorway, G. Sewers 357 0/3 Saugatuck - Fish shacks Frank Sewers 358 1/1 Saugatuck - fish shacks 6/1949 George Sewers shack 359 0/1 Saugatuck - fish shacks 10/1945 R. Sewers 361 0/2 Saugatuck - Fish Boats 8/1944 Cleaning the catch aboard boat 366 3/7 Saugatuck - fish nets 7/1949 Boiling nets, Jack Sewers 367 2/2 Saugatuck - fish nets 1952 Drying nets, George Sewers 369 0/2 Saugatuck - fish shacks 8/1944 G. J. Sewers & Sons "Fresh Lake Fish” 582 1/1 Saugatuck - cruisers 7/31/1949 Hutchins on river [Sewers' docks fill background] 629 1/5 Saugatuck - Baldhead 11/1948 From opposite bank 370 1/1 Saugatuck - Fish docks 8/1949 G. Sewers dock 755 3/3 Saugatuck - fish docks 1952 Geo Sewers, Willow Park, Diepenhorsts 759 3/5 Saugatuck - fish docks 1952 Baldhead in background From photographic negatives created by William R. Simmons, editor of the Commercial Record newspaper between 1941 and 1961. See the SDHC publications "Off the Record" and "Bounty and Bust" for background information.
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Van Plew, Everett "Ev" LeRoy c1915-1958
Water St. Fishing Docks
Coghlin Park
Mount Baldhead Steps/Stairs
Mount Baldhead Gap-Filler Radar Annex 1956-present
Fisher Boy (fishing tug) 1933-
B&L (ship)
Capitol 1 (boat)
William (Bill) Simmons
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194 Simmons Negatives
Sewers, Reuben Washington Sr. (1850-1939)
Sewers, George James 1891-1954
Peel, Robert Charles "Bob" 1924-1988
Sewers, John Clare "Jack" 1918-1983
Sewers, Reuben W. "Rube" Jr. 1894-1978
Joann (boat)
Richard Grubbs' grandfather, Gus Hershaw, worked with Rube Sewer and Jack Sewers. I remember hearing fishing stories from them. --Anna Grubbs Source: SDHS newsletter pg. 238-239