Men by nets, Lochgilphead, Argyll
Maker
John Peat Munn
Production date
1926
Description
Text on negative envelope reads 'Lochgilphead. Hanging nets'. The nets are being treated with extract from tannin-rich wood bark, derived from ‘cutch’ a product of the Acacia catechu. It helped protect the nets from rotting. This was why Victorian sails were often brown.
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