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Field name | Value |
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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 |
Additional Information |
The Bridgeman Art Library is the copyright holder, or authorised representative of the copyright holder, for all photographic transparencies in the Bridgeman Art Library. |
Copyright | Bridgeman Art Library |