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Newhaven fisher laddies
Hill, David Octavius, 1847, Salted paper print
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Newhaven fisher laddies
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Title
Newhaven fisher laddies
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A group of boys who are fisher laddies are beside a boat. Some boys are inside the vessel, others sit on a stool and a basket while others stand. Most of the boys wear beret hats, some are barefooted.
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Hill, David Octavius
Date
1847
Size
14.5 x 20 cm
Type
Salted paper print
Location
Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Newhaven was founded by James IV in 1504 as a royal dockyard. It became an important fishing village, famous initially for oysters and later herring. An indoor fish market was built there in 1896. Newhaven fishwives, with their distinctive striped clothes, sold their goods around Edinburgh. David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson famously photographed these fishwives and other Newhaven residents in the 1840's. The area now has a population of roughly five thousand.
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