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A photograph of Union Station in Salisbury, Maryland.

Portrait of Harriet Tubman

This publication, compiled by Bessie E. Gunter, maybe the first
known cookbook on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Bessie lived
in Accomack County and many of the recipes come from women with common Eastern Shore names like Nottingham, Bayly, Custis,…

Watercoloring painting of the Wicomico river

Photograph of permanent residents at the W.T Handy’s House, Crisfield, MD, 1940. They worked on canning vegetables for part of the season and oysters the rest.

Photograph of the residents at the W.T Handy's House located in Crisfield Maryland.They worked on canning vegetables for part of the season and oysters the rest

Photograph of crabs in holding pen

Rosy, an eight-year-old oyster shucker who works steady all day from about 3:00 A.M. to about 5 P.M. in Dunbar Cannery. The baby will shuck as soon as she can handle the knife. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana.

Record book kept by Mrs. “Brownie” Wagner of waterfowl hunts near Snow Hill, Maryland, over several years.