Joppa Clam Shanties | c1900s | NESB Archival Giclee Print

Joppa Flats & Clamming In the late 19th Century, clam shacks proliferated along a stretch of the Merrimack River in Newburyport known as Joppa Flat where clam digging followed the low tide cycles of the salt marsh using simple clam forks and wire baskets for seawater drainage. Clamming was a major industry for the Northshore of Massachusetts given its intertidal ecosystem called the Great Marsh, a massive zone of 20,000 acres of nutrient-rich salt marshes, estuaries, tidal rivers, barrier beaches, and mud flats extending from Gloucester to Salisbury. At its height around 1900, there was as many as one-half to five tons of shucked clams shipped every day to Boston and other cities from Newburyport. This beautiful giclee print was derived from an original c1900s hand-colored postcard of the era and printed on matt fine art paper to reflect the sharpness, texture & tones of a prints from the late 1800s & early 1900s. Dimensions are 12" L x  8" H and mounted to 1/8" (3 mm) thic