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Commercial Fishermen, Waukegan, 1910

 

 

 

Commercial Fishermen, Waukegan, 1910

Much of the work of commercial fishing involved maintaining the large nets set out in the deeper waters of Lake Michigan. Seen here are men repairing nets at a fishing camp set up at the lakeshore at Waukegan in 1910.