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Oyster Dredging
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Oyster Dredging

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MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 232 × 304 mm. (9 1/8 × 11 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 280 × 354 mm. (11 × 13 15/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Stanley Kogan and Lynda Winston, Baltimore
Object number1986.233
NOT ON VIEW
Last Updated1/11/24
Image Not Available for Oyster Dredging, St. Mary's County.
Oyster Dredging, St. Mary's County.
1980
Image Not Available for The Oyster. (You'll wake me up at dinner time.) Big, fat, thick, plump, greedy, wakes up only for the purpose of taking in food and sleeps only for the purpose of digesting it. The oyster does not eat for living, but lives for eating. Its locomotive and industrial apparatus are non existent. It vegetates on the spot and its existence is manifested only by the exactitude, the number and the quality of the meals. The entire energy of the oyster is located in the stomach. One might call it an animal of pleasure, its only mission in life being to consume without working, while others work without consuming. It seems to be perfectly at ease with this providential mission. (Lacépède – Natural History.)
The Oyster. (You'll wake me up at dinner time.) Big, fat, thick, plump, greedy, wakes up only for the purpose of taking in food and sleeps only for the purpose of digesting it. The oyster does not eat for living, but lives for eating. Its locomotive and industrial apparatus are non existent. It vegetates on the spot and its existence is manifested only by the exactitude, the number and the quality of the meals. The entire energy of the oyster is located in the stomach. One might call it an animal of pleasure, its only mission in life being to consume without working, while others work without consuming. It seems to be perfectly at ease with this providential mission.
(Lacépède – Natural History.)
1837
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"Rose" Oyster Fork
1904-1925
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"Rose" Oyster Fork
1904-1925
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"Rose" Oyster Fork
1904-1925
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"Rose" Oyster Fork
1904-1925
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"Rose" Oyster Fork
1904-1925
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"Rose" Oyster Fork
1904-1925
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"Rose" Oyster Fork
1904-1925
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"Rose" Oyster Fork
1904-1925
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"Rose" Oyster Fork
1904-1925
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"Rose" Oyster Fork
1904-1925