Shelburne Bay, Winter 1938 with ice fishermen

Photograph

Shelburne Historical Society

Name/Title

Shelburne Bay, Winter 1938 with ice fishermen

Entry/Object ID

2025.13.3

Description

This is a black and white aerial photo of Shelburne Bay, taken in 1938. It is a picture of people ice fishing on the bay, as evident from the ice fishing houses. There is land on either side of the photo and snow on top of the ice where people are ice fishing.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Digital

Subject

Shelburne Bay in winter of 1938 frozen over with fishing shanties, looking North

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

Shelburne Village, United States

Town

Shelburne

State/Province

Vermont

Continent

North America

Context

This photograph was taken 1938.

Made/Created

Artist

Lathrop, George

Date made

1938

Place

Town

Shelburne

State/Province

Vermont

* Untyped Place

United States

Continent

North America

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

digital photographs

Other Names

Name Type

Catalogue Information

Other Name

Photographs: 1991.387.115--Lathrop Collection

Name Type

Filename

Other Name

Landscape Change Program - Filename: LS22414_000.jpg

Name Type

Filename

Other Name

Landscape Change Program - Original Filename: SM_JM032.jpg

Web Links and URLs

Image Source in Landscape Change Program - University of Vermont

Copyright

Type of License

Copright Statement - In Copyright

Copyright Holder

Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History

Restrictions

Credit: "Collection of the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, Middlebury, Vermont". Permission of the low-resolution images (below 300 dpi) on the Shelburne Historical Society website. The high-resolution images are for onsite research purposes only. Please, do not share or distribute the latter without additional permission.

Created By

Boucher, David

Create Date

November 17, 2025

Updated By

Boucher, David

Update Date

November 17, 2025