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Title Merchant Seaman's' Houses in Salem, Boston, USA
Reference WTL487353
Library Bridgeman Art Library
Date n.d.
Description Salem was a centre for the international shipping trade. The ships carried native products, such as dried fish, lumber, cotton, butter, beef, and tobacco, along with rum and molasses from the West Indies, to ports all over the world. These were traded for luxury goods such as tea, coffee, sugar, pepper, and Indian cotton textiles.
Document Type Photograph
Theme(s) Trade and Commerce
Keywords architecture, building, business, commodity, merchant, fish, lumber, cotton, butter, beef, tobacco, rum, molasses, tea, coffee, sugar, pepper, trade, voyage
Countries USA
Places Boston; Salem
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