Little Village, Big Science:
Woods Hole in the 20th Century

Hanging above the tanks in the main gallery, this section of "Little Village, Big Science" consists of 18 images of Woods Hole scientists and fishermen at work between 1925 and 1970. All images are taken from the Northeast Fisheries Science Center's historical photograph collection, which is available to the public online (http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/history/photos.html).

A village tied to the ocean

Unloading fish at Cahoon’s market

Weathering the storm in Woods Hole

Job Corp trainees aboard Albatross IV

Fishing from shore

Trawling for groundfish

Foreign factory trawlers

Cod on Georges Bank

Landing tuna in Woods Hole

Weighing halibut aboard the Albatross IV

Shark on the dock

Collecting sponges in the Bahamas

Studying oyster beds in Georgia

Winter at sea

Gathering oceanographic data

Abundance of dogfish

Measuring the catch

Goosefish, cod, haddock, biologist

Thirty-pound lobster

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