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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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that give all the effect of apainted picture at a little distance ? Dried specimens, stuffed, cast,painted, photographed or even skeletonized, as In the case of a bighumpback whale from Puget Sound, pass in review, a series ofobject lessons In natural history, not only instructive from a stand-point of specific differentiation, but particularly impressive whenconsidered In their relation to commerce and the welfare of man-kind. Maps of fishing grounds, in river, lake or ocean, show where thevarious objects of fishery exist in the greatest abundance. These FISHERIES. 215 reofions are the natural resorts of the toilers who venture out togather the harvests of the deep in all climes. Here, then, we cantrace the limitation of the work of the fisherman, considered froma purely geographical standpoint, though the maps have the ad-didonal merit of indicating the principal centres of distribution ofcertain kinds of aquatic animals. Even the fishermen themselves are well represented by photo-
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NORWEGIA-N FISHERMAN. graphs, models and lay figures. The strong-featured Norwegianfisherman, clad in appropriate garb, looks lifelike enough to speak^as he sits grasping the tiller of his boat; the figures of Cape Annmen at the wheel and aloft on the lookout for fish, and the miniaturefishermen of Holland and Japan are good examples of differenttypes. Nor is the angler forgotten. Canada has given him theplace of honor on the apex of her great trophy, where, with rod,reel and long wading boots he stands in graceful pose, as if goingto the stream he loves. Here, too, are the homes of the fishermen.They show us how he lives. There is a world of difference betweenthe temporary rough board cabin of the Norse fisherman, the reedhut of the North Carolina mullet fisher—both beine full size—andthe neat and often beautiful cottages which are the homes of sea 2l6 FISHERIES. toilers in New England. Associated with these are collections ofantique furnishings of fishermens homes, in colonial t

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