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Commercial fishing 1943-1961

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Multiple Simmons negative numbers Some of Simmon's photographs of commercial fishermen at work and their shanties and tugs. Index text: 101 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats 7/1945 Fisher Boy at dock 105 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish docks 8/1942 Old George Sewers shack 203 0/2 Saugatuck - People, Fishing 1957 Bob Peel and fish 323 0/3 Saugatuck - Fish Dock Chuck Isaacson, fish TV 325 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats Bonnie S. 332 0/3 Saugatuck - Fish Nets 5/1949 Net floats, G. Sewers 333 0/5 Saugatuck - Fish Docks, Boats 5/1959 Rickety dock, boat 324 1/1 Saugatuck - Fish Dock Unloading fish 326 0/2 Saugatuck - Fish Dock G. Sewers dock with nets 328 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats, Docks 8/1944 Reflections on water 331 0/3 Saugatuck - Fish Shacks 9/23/45 Back door of shack 334 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Docks 5/1949 Coils of rope 335 0/3 Saugatuck - Fish Nets 8/1944 Washing nets 336 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Shacks 1/1946 Shacks in winter 338 0/5 Saugatuck - Fish Boats Capitol, with trawlers TV 340 1/1 saugatuck - Fish Boats 9/4/1949 On river 341 0/2 Saugatuck - Fish Boats 11/1957 Docked on river, winter 343 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats 5/1944 Fisher Boy 342 0/1 saugatuck - Fish Boats Bonnie S. [tug is not Bonnie S.] 344 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats Joann 345 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats, docks 6/1958 Sewers dock 347 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish docks 10/1943 Diepenhorst docks 348 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish docks 8/1943 High water, flooded shacks 349 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish docks, boats 8/1944 Frank Sewers, other fishermen 350 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats 1961 Trawlers 351 0/10 Saugatuck - Fish Boats, docks 1961 Capitol, fish pump 352 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish Boats 8/1943 Addison Sr. 353 0/6 Saugatuck - Fish Nets 1947 Boiling nets, Jack Sewers, Marv Demerest 355 0/4 Saugatuck - Fish boats 8/1958 Fish tug 356 2/2 Saugatuck - Fish shacks 5/1949 Doorway, G. Sewers 357 0/3 Saugatuck - Fish shacks Frank Sewers 358 1/1 Saugatuck - fish shacks 6/1949 George Sewers shack 359 0/1 Saugatuck - fish shacks 10/1945 R. Sewers 361 0/2 Saugatuck - Fish Boats 8/1944 Cleaning the catch aboard boat 366 3/7 Saugatuck - fish nets 7/1949 Boiling nets, Jack Sewers 367 2/2 Saugatuck - fish nets 1952 Drying nets, George Sewers 369 0/2 Saugatuck - fish shacks 8/1944 G. J. Sewers & Sons "Fresh Lake Fish” 582 1/1 Saugatuck - cruisers 7/31/1949 Hutchins on river [Sewers' docks fill background] 629 1/5 Saugatuck - Baldhead 11/1948 From opposite bank 370 1/1 Saugatuck - Fish docks 8/1949 G. Sewers dock 755 3/3 Saugatuck - fish docks 1952 Geo Sewers, Willow Park, Diepenhorsts 759 3/5 Saugatuck - fish docks 1952 Baldhead in background From photographic negatives created by William R. Simmons, editor of the Commercial Record newspaper between 1941 and 1961. See the SDHC publications "Off the Record" and "Bounty and Bust" for background information.
simmons-324a Wm Cary at the Sewers's Docks
203 0/2 Saugatuck - People, Fishing 1957 Bob Peel and fish simmons-324-Fishing UnloadingFish; The tug Andrew was owned by Frank Sewers. It docked at Water Street, across the river from the Saugatuck-Douglas History Museum. A typical tug of the era, Andrew was enclosed to protect fishermen from the weather and to provide an enclosed workspace. Note buoy on roof of tug. Man dragging net boxes is Ev Van Plew simmons-325 Bonnie S fishing tug simmons-326-GSewersNetReel; Water St. docks simmons-328-reflections simmons-331-BackDoor simmons-338-Capitol1Trawler; Paul Peel's Capitol I trawled for alewife simmons-343 FisherBoy at Willow Park May 1944 simmons-350-1-FishPump1961; Capitol 1 or Capitol I simmons-350-Trawlers 1961 simmons-352- Tug simmons-353-2- Jack Sewers, Demmy Demerest 1947 simmons-353-cleaning fish nets; demmy demerest simmons-353-Jack Sewers [wearing cap], Demmy Demerest 1947 simmons-355 tug simmons-356 Sewers's Green Shanty, river side simmons-357 fish boxes simmons-358 gill net buoys on Sewers's docks; simmons-358 buoys.jpg 2.3MB simmons-359-Sewers's Shack (Today's Demerst Shanty) at Water Street, October 1945 simmons-361- Fishing InsideTug 331 Shanty.simmons.331 332FishNets 333FishShacks 334FishShacksRope 335 simmons335 335WaterStFishShacks.jpg 664KB 336FishShacks in winter 341FishShacks 345FishShacks 351FishboatsAlewives 353BoilingNets 366BoilingNets 366BoilingNets 369 GeorgeSewersShanty at Culver Street - site is now Coghlin Park; # 369 This is the Sewers fish house east of the Blue Star Highway and north of the Blue Star bridge. It burned in the 1970s. In the background is a distinctive row of trees south of the river where there used to be a quonset shaped boathouse. Source: SDHS newsletter pg 238 323FishingMechanics Chuck Isaacson, fish TV 582 FishingBoats 629 fishing tug baldhead 755 Fishing Dock 759 Sewers Dock 105; This image was featured as History Mystery #10 with the solution: The Village pumphouse, the Gotham fish tug and the Sewers fish house as seen from Water Street ca 1943. a335.jpg 2.1MB; This image was featured as History Mystery #77 with the solution: In 1944, fishermen washing their nets was a daily chore in one of Saugatuck's early industries. 340 1/1 saugatuck - Fish Boats 9/4/1949 On river; Gleason shack, B&L and Lucille 342 fishing tug B&L simmons-344 Sewers's Joann Fish Tug; Culver St. docks (Coghlin park) high school and Wright's Pavilion in back ground simmons-347 Diepenhorst shanties at Water Street Oct 1943; B&L 348 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish docks 8/1943 High water, flooded shacks; a348.jpg 1.4MB 349 0/1 Saugatuck - Fish docks, boats 8/1944 Frank Sewers, other fishermen; Wm. Cary tug 351; Capitol I pumping alewife from hold 353 356 356 357 358 359 361 366 366; Jack Sewers a366B.jpg 2.1MB; Jack Sewers 367 1.7MB 367 370 1/1 Saugatuck - Fish docks 8/1949 G. Sewers dock 331 0/3 Saugatuck - Fish Shacks 9/23/45 Back door of shack a101.jpg 1.9MB Fisher Boy 369 G.L. Sewers and Sons (at 333 Culver St. - today's Coghlin Park); This building may have burned in Feb. 1951, see newspaper clipping here and at the F.W. Sewers person profile. cr1951021601FWSewersBuildingsBurnedEd-MarDamaged.jpg 89KB; F.W. Sewers commercial fishing plant at foot of Griffith burns 1951 capitol - 1 alewives.jpg 424KB; Capitol I NetsBoatWinter.jpg 778KB; presumed to be a Simmons photos file325.jpg 1.4MB; Fresh Lake Fish G. J. Sewers & Sons file648.jpg 330KB; presumed to be Simmons

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Van Plew, Everett "Ev" LeRoy c1915-1958Water St. Fishing DocksCoghlin ParkMount Baldhead Steps/StairsMount Baldhead Gap-Filler Radar Annex 1956-presentFisher Boy (fishing tug) 1933-B&L (ship)Capitol 1 (boat)

William (Bill) Simmons

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194 Simmons Negatives

Sewers, Reuben Washington Sr. 1850-1939Sewers, George James 1891-1954Peel, Robert Charles "Bob" 1924-1988Sewers, John Clare "Jack" 1918-1983Sewers, Reuben W. "Rube" Jr. 1894-1978Joann (boat)

Richard Grubbs' grandfather, Gus Hershaw, worked with Rube Sewer and Jack Sewers. I remember hearing fishing stories from them. --Anna Grubbs Source: SDHS newsletter pg. 238-239

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