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Our Prosperity Is Based on Lobsters and Boarders
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Our Prosperity Is Based on Lobsters and Boarders
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Florence Scovel Shinn
(American, 1869 - 1940)
Our Prosperity Is Based on Lobsters and Boarders
Ink on paper
1901
10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in. (27.8 × 35.4 cm)
82.16.249
Gift of Jane Collette Wilcox, 1982
Not on view
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for Peace, Commerce, Prosperity, (map of North and South America), presentation painting
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ca. 1902
study of a dory and lobster boat
N.C. Wyeth
not dated
Peace, Commerce, Prosperity (map of North and South America)
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1923
