Pound Netting
Photograph
Hand-colored photo of brothers Frank and Rube Sewers hauling in a pound net (or pondnet) boiling with fish. The brother are leaning over the edge of a wooden dingy, their backs bent, faces shadowed by hats.
2021.43.01
Print, photograph
Sewers, Reuben W. "Rube" Jr. 1894-1978Sewers, Frank Wilmot 1894-1970
Winthers, Sally
2021.43
Kozanecki, Bonnie (Sewers) 1941-2023
Donation
8 in
10 in
100 Commercial Fishing
Good
1 inch tear and .25 gauge in upper edge. Traces of tape adhesive. On reverse side, paper yellowing around edges and dark smudge or mold.
5 minutes into the "RubesShack" Bud Sewer's audio interview, the color photo is described as "belonging to my grandfather" and show my uncle and guy from Grand Haven. Taken at Grand Haven.
10/30/2021
07/28/2025