Heading Herring

Description

This image shows women, some with pipes in their mouths, removing fish heads on a pier. Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City and published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916. It featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects and humor, alongside illustrations. It covered the American Civil War extensively, including many illustrations of events from the war.

Source

Harper's Weekly (Sept. 28, 1861), p.621; also published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1857), vol. 14, p. 438.

Language

English

Rights

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Identifier

HW0014

Spatial Coverage

North America

Item sets

Miscellaneous Occupations & Economic Activities

Citation

"Heading Herring", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed April 13, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/953
This image shows women, some with pipes in their mouths, removing fish heads on a pier. Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City and published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916. It featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects and humor, alongside illustrations. It covered the American Civil War extensively, including many illustrations of events from the war.
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