I was going through some boxes and came across this book that my father's hunting buddy gave me a long time ago:

The author "apprenticed" for market hunters on the Chesapeake Bay as a boy. The book is chocked full of great details and lots of pics of punt guns, batteries, sinkboxes, etc.
It is a great collection of information that has slipped into the mists of time.

Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.