This photograph, by East Hampton native Bruce Collins, is labeled "taken from the crow's nest, a view of the bow of the bunker steamer Shinnecock while underway looking for fish." The Shinnecock fished for bunker (also known as menhaden). Collins notes in his Tom Twomey series lecture from 2015 that fishing boats called steamers actually ran on diesel, and the name came from the fact that this sort of boat used to run on steam power. In this same talk, Collins indicated that this view would have been 65-80 feet into the air, and the height was necessary for spotting a school of fish. 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.