Written on this photograph is the following inscription:  
<dl><dd>"Cape Cod Oil Works opposite Provincetown [meaning 'on Long Point'], Mass.   Old hulk used as fertilizer screening house.—Worth 1891."</dd></dl><p>Bottom inscription (added later) reads:
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<dl><dd>"Condemned by Dr. Moore 2/6/[19]19"</dd></dl><ul><li>Image ID: fish6914, NOAA's Historic Fisheries Collection</li>
<li>Credit: Gulf of Maine Cod Project, NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries; Courtesy of National Archives</li></ul><p><br>
From the EXIF data: 
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<ul><li>RG 22-C. Records of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.</li>
<li>U.S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries.</li>
<li>Cyanotypes: Commercial Fishing Activity in the United States, 1882-1891.  Massachusetts. Box 1 of 2.</li>
<li>United States Fisheries Heritage Digital Collection</li></ul>
Archival Photographer Stefan Claesson
NOAA's Historic Fisheries Collection, <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/fish6914.htm">http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/fish6914.htm</a>