Photo and Video Gallery

Browse through the Doxsee family’s nostalgic photo and video gallery to get a glimpse of what it was like to live off the sea on Long Island’s South Shore in the late 1800s and throughout the 20th Century.

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James Harvey Doxsee

Young Bob Doxsee , 8, with his sister Eleanor

Everything ices up and can be dangerous

Two uncles, early 1900s, Fire Island beach by the coast guard station is now

Pound Trap

Front and back cover of the advertising brochure

Point Lookout, market up front, coolers and ice grinder in the back.

Bob and his father trying to fill his boots on top of a tuna. Roughly 1939.

James Harvey Doxsee, family at Farmhouse in Islop. Bearded around 1900.

Meadow Island, off the Loop Parkway between the two bridges, brother and sister, Gifford and Elanor

One of three conveyors filling all the cages without having to move it.

Father and brother sort through the species. Right after the fish came out of the trip

doxsee sea clam company | clam boat

Taking the clams off the dredge (00-fot barge) and getting them to take them to the cannery 40 miles away.

Using scap nets to catch fish. GRANDPA DOXSEE John Cook Doxsee. Netting is significant diamond shaped webbing. Early 1900s.

Building the boat. These are hopppers feeding the two cages that held 32 bushels.MG - Building the Boat

doxsee sea clam company

Drgedge in Flordia and then putting the,m on the conveyor belt. The 19th century people were very resourceful.

Dregder anging out after a long day of dredging on the Day Star

The cannery in Islip. On Islip Creek

Bay Shore Historical Society September 21 East Islip September/Oct Port Jefferson

Boats pulling the fish

Young John CARMAN so the drum would tilt. Using a winch. They all smoked. Used diving matches that could be struck anywhere.

Point Lookout

Workers sorting through the fish.

Bob Doxsee

Bob Doxsee

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