Unidentified fishing vessel.

Seine boat at Rockport, Maine drying the nets.

Lateen-rigged fishing vessels.

Lateen-rigged fishing vessels.

Baiting long-line, unidentified.

Fishing steamer John Smith.

Fishing vessel, unidentified.

Waterfront, unidentified.

Waterfront, unidentified.

Fishing vessels, unidentified.

The coastal steamer Hiram R. Dixon, Chicago, IL.

Lighthouse, unidentified.

Fishing camp, unidentified.

Net reels, unidentified.

Three captured sealers from British Columbia 1888 at Unalaska, Alaska, that were engaged in illegal pelagic sealing.

Albatross, ethnology, prehistoric ruin, Cozumel, Mexico.

Pearl fishing, La Paz, lower CA, sea pearl fishery.

Chinese fishery, Monterey, CA, west coast scenery.

Chinese fishing village, Monterey, CA, west coast scenery.

House Chinese shrimp camp, San Francisco Bay, CA, west coast scenery.

Albatross, at Washington Navy Yard.

Albatross.

Albatross at Panama about 1890.

Albatross in Alaska.

Albatross in southeast AK.

Albatross, Tanner improved intermediate tow rest ready to send down.

Albatross, Tanner improved intermediate tow rest closed.

Albatross, surface tow rest.

Albatross, Blake deep sea trawl, lowering.

Albatross, beam trawl.

Albatross, Blake deep sea trawl, lowering.

Albatross trawl net.

Albatross, Tanner thermometer case on wire. Support for Sigbee sounding engine on reeling in. Guide for temperature wire.

Albatross, old fashioned sounding rod used by Hawaiian Inter-Island Cable Co., presented to Townsend at Honolulu.

Albatross, Sigbee sounder with 30-lb. shot going down.

Albatross, Tanner dredging quadrant, 1895.

Albatross, Sigbee sounder with 30-lb. shot released.

Albatross, Tanner dredging quadrant, 1895.

Albatross. Tanner thermometer case on wire. support for Sigbee sounding engine on reeling in. Guide for temperature wire.

Albatross, Blake deep sea trawl, side view.

Albatross, Blake deep sea trawl, front view.

Stations at Sigsbee Sounding Machine, line going down.

Albatross, Sigsbee sounding machine, 1895.

The Blish Distance Finder, Albatross, 1895.

Albatross, Townsend's Intermediate tow-rest.

Albatross, Sigsbee sounding machine, 1895.

Stations at Sigsbee Sounding Machine, line coming up.

Pelagic sealing, Bering Sea, carcass of seal on deck of sealing schooner, 1894.

Pelagic sealer, Bering Sea, 1895.

Pelagic sealer, Bering Sea, 1895.