Item 6297 - Getting seaweed, Sheepscot Bay, ca. 1890
- Item 6297 - Getting seaweed, Sheepscot Bay, ca. 1890
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- Item 6297
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Image Info Harvesting seaweed along the coast of Maine is done for a few reasons. Seaweed is used as fertilizer and also chemicals are extracted from seaweed to use as emulsifiers in foods.
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This etching can be found on page 195 of 'The Pine-tree Coast' by Samuel Adams Drake, Boston, Estes and Laurent, 1891.
