Item 101362 - Harrison Humphrey and nets, Monhegan, ca. 1885
- Item 101362 - Harrison Humphrey and nets, Monhegan, ca. 1885
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- Item 101362
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Image Info Harrison Humphrey stood at a fish dressing table on his wharf at Deadman’s Cove on Monhegan Island. Seine nets dried behind him.
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Known as a hermit, Humphrey was a fisherman and a blacksmith. He also assisted his mother, Betsey Morrow Humphrey, in tending the Monhegan Lighthouse from 1862 until 1880.
