18th century illustration of how women from the shore, working their way out to platforms from which they lower little hand nets. Published in "A Dide

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18th century illustration of how women from the shore, working their way out to platforms from which they lower little hand nets. Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'encyclopedie, ou Dictionnarie Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" of Denis Diderot". (Charles Coulston Gillispie, Dover Publications, New York, 1959).

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Photo credit: © Les Archives Digitales / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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