The Napeague, a fishing boat, under the command of Captain Norman Edwards appears in this image. There is no way to know where this image was taken, since Captain Norman Edwards fished from the Gulf of Maine to the Gulf of Mexico with an "unlimited" fishing license, as per his obituary. The Napeague was mainly engaged in catching bunker or menhaden, a small oily fish typically used for commercial purposes, like bait, fertilizers and fish oil, rather than direct human consumption. The Napeague was one of the vessels from East Hampton that fished from Promised Land for the fish factories. When this image was taken, the boat was probably working for Smith Meal Company, which was the last of the Promised Land fish factories still in operation. In her oral history interview with Tony Prohaska, Elsie Johnson Edwards, the widow of Captain Norman Edwards, noted that Norman Edwards worked for both Smith Meal Company and Atlantic Processing Company based out of Promised Land. She also noted that he captained other bunker boats including the Edward J. McKeever, the Shinnecock, the Montauk, the Tideland. He also owned and fished off the Edith L. Hudgins, the Little Tideland, the Robert E. and the Little Robert E. The crews employed by the Smith Meal Company were mainly African American men from Virginia, and Norman Edwards's crews largely came from Reedville, Virginia. In his History Project, Inc. oral history, Bruce Collins told interviewer Tony Prohaska that he piloted the steamer Shinnecock out of Amagansett for Jack Edwards from 1954 until 1960. That date is used to estimate the date for these images. Captain Norman Edwards was the youngest of three sons of Eva King Edwards and Samuel Stratton Edwards, and the grandson of Joshua B. Edwards, a whaler and pioneer in the bunker fishing industry. His father and uncles built the Edwards Brothers dock next to the rendering plants at Promised Land, which were consolidated under Smith Meal Company in 1930. Captain Norman Edwards is credited with being the first bunker captain to work with an airplane for spotting schools of fish, an innovation captured in other pictures in this collection of photographs.