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Nova Scotia, Fishermen Hauling in Nets
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Nova Scotia, Fishermen Hauling in Nets
Artist
Lou Stoumen
(1917 - 1991)
Date
1939
Medium
Vintage gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Sheet Dimension: 7 1/2 × 9 7/8 in. (19.1 × 25.1 cm)
Credit Line
Anonymous Gift
Object number
2021.20.109
On View
Not on view
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Like England and like the United States, Nova Scotia is a melting pot of races. Here a Scotch soldier on leave visits Peggy’s Cove. Canada still resists conscription for overseas, its expeditionary force is volunteer. In Nova Scotia are English, French, German, Scotch, Welsh, Irish, Mic Mac Indians and the descendants of British slaves
Lou Stoumen
1939
Fisher Girl, Nova Scotia, Canada
Lou Stoumen
1940
Three dollars a square foot is the average price of these hooked rugs, proudly displayed by an Acadian woman. The price is no measure of the long tiresome homework involved in their manufacture. “Hooked” rugs, an old Nova Scotian handicraft, are made with a hooklike crocheting needle
Lou Stoumen
ca. 1939
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Woman Enjoying the Sun, New York
Lou Stoumen
c. 1980
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for Woman Resting
Woman Resting
Lou Stoumen
c. 1970
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for Roundup, cowboys drive cattle down mountain to Winter quarters, near Continental Divide, Colorado
Roundup, cowboys drive cattle down mountain to Winter quarters, near Continental Divide, Colorado
Lou Stoumen
1952
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for Woman in Her Kitchen, Calcutta, India
Woman in Her Kitchen, Calcutta, India
Lou Stoumen
1944
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for Going Home on the Subway, NYC
Going Home on the Subway, NYC
Lou Stoumen
1940-1979
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for War and Base, SV
War and Base, SV
Lou Stoumen
1941-1979
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for Woman seated on curb (seen from behind)
Woman seated on curb (seen from behind)
Lou Stoumen
n.d.
Children on blanket
Lou Stoumen
1970s
Filming on Los Angeles Beach
Lou Stoumen
1979/1980s