Circa 1925
From the photograph collection of Paul Galtsoff

This shark (probably a porbeagle) was photographed on the dock outside the original Fish Commission buildings, in front of the present-day NOAA building just south of the aquarium.

The pier with the drawbridge was part of a “boat basin” built in 1884 to provide small boats refuge during storms. The vessel in the background is the original Albatross, docked where the Albatross IV often docks today.