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4 photos tagged flakes, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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• fish
• canada
• drying
• mccordmuseum
• muséemccord
• harbour
• stages
• split
• cod
• salted
• newfoundland
• nfld
• beard
• rooms
• basilica
• pipe
• poles
• boughs
• turning
• stacks
• codfish
• fortamherst
• gadusmorhua
• yaffles

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• Musée McCord Stewart Museum 3 photos
• North East Museums 1 photo

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Drying fish, Burgeo, NL, 1908

from Musée McCord Stewart Museum

• Lú_ said:

  This photograph is part of the Indicommons.org post Canada across the Commons. Happy Canada Day!
  
  

• Ceaseless Reward said:

  O_O, Génial !
  
  

Drying codfish, St. Johns, NF, about 1900

from Musée McCord Stewart Museum

• Brian Carey said:

  This is wonderful!

Portugal Cove, NL, 1908

from Musée McCord Stewart Museum

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Jean Knowles said:

  The raised platforms are flakes used for spreading cod to dry. More flakes are visible, as horizontal lines, on the far side of the harbour. This gives an indication of what an integral part the catching and salting of cod had in the economy of Newfoundland.

• Ceaseless Reward said:

  Photo magnifique

• LightLikeMotion said:

  I love how much further up the shore the community went, and also up the hill. thanks for
  posting

• Cláudio de Sousa said:

  Just Fantastic Wow
  
  Parabéns pelo belo trabalho, junte-se ao
  

• icy watch said:

  Gone Fishing!!! :-)