Catching turtles on a Snapping Turtle farm, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, United States of America. In the 19th century canneries processed and exported tons of product until the turtle populations collapsed, a law has now been passed to restrict the hunting of these turtles. From America Revisited: From The Bay of New York to The Gulf of Mexico, published 1886.

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