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The postcards are of Abalone Shells in Santa Barbara, CA circa 1920. Download full version (zip file). |
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Oyster shells from Hampton, VA c1915 Oyster harvests from Chesapeake Bay are only 4% of what they were at the beginning of the 20th century. Download full version (zip file). |
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Oyster shells from Long Island 1932 dated postcard. Download full version (zip file). |
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Winslow Homer painting Fog Warning painted in 1885. Download full version (zip file). |
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Large halibut (270 lb) caught off of Provincetown, MA c1910. Halibut have virtually disappeared from the North Atlantic from over-fishing, any that are caught are much, much smaller than shown in this postcard. Download full version (zip file). |
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Dr. Glenn Jones with menus. Download full version (zip file). |
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Glenn Jones with a menu #2. Download full version (zip file). Additional images of Dr. Jones available at http://www.tamug.edu/
glenn_jones_research/. |
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Abalone.
Inflation adjusted price of abalone in San Francisco restaurants. Note that from the early 1920s to the late 1930s the price closely tracked the Consumer Price Index (CPI). That is to say on this inflation-adjusted chart the prices are flat at a 2004$ of approximately $7.00. There was a jump in the price in the late 1930's and a second jump in inflation-adjusted prices in the late 1950s. Since the late 1950s the price of abalone has significantly out-paced the inflation rate by 7-10x. Download full version (zip file). |
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Lobster.
Inflation-adjusted price of lobster. Note that lobster prices increased faster than the inflation rate starting in the 1860s and that trend continued until the mid/late 1920s. From the 1930s through the 1940s the inflation-adjusted price of lobster actually fell. By the 1950s to the 1970s the price once again exceeded the inflation rate. Since the late 1970s the inflation-adjusted price has remained stable to slightly fallen. Download full version (zip file). |
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Raw Oysters.
Raw oysters have been a popular item on restaurant menus since the beginning. Here we show the inflation adjusted (2004$) prices from New York and Massachusetts restaurant menus. Note that the price very closely followed the inflation rate from the 1850s to the 1950s, after which the inflation-adjusted price jumped 2x in less than 10 years. Prices have been stable (inflation-adjusted) for much of the past 40 years. Download full version (zip file). |
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Sole.
Inflation-adjusted prices of Sole from the 1860s to today. Prices closely tracked inflation from the 1860s to the 1950s, after which the price rose 3X faster than the inflation rate to the early 1980s. Since then inflation-adjusted prices have slightly fallen. Download full version (zip file). |
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Swordfish.
The large-pelagic, swordfish had stable inflation-adjusted prices until the mid 1950s, after which the price rose rapidly. Prices exceeded inflation rate by 3x until the late 1970s, after which the inflation-adjusted prices appear to have slightly fallen. Download full version (zip file). |
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Menus. Download full version (zip file). |
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