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Crab meat weighed and packed in cans at seafood processing plant, Crisfield

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Photograph of crab meat being weighed and packed in cans at a seafood processing plant in Crisfield, Maryland. Four African American women sit at a table, facing a brick wall and picking steamed hard-shelled blue crabs. Two Caucasian men weigh and pack the crab meat in metal cans.
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Digital Reproduction Of 1 Black And White Photograph, 13 X 18 Cm.
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Enoch Pratt Free Library / State Library Resource Center

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Digital Maryland

Keywords

  1. African American Women Employees
  2. African Americans
  3. Canned Crab Meat
  4. Crisfield
  5. Employees
  6. Fishery Processing Plants
  7. Maryland
  8. Women

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