An American city, Gloucester is a city on Cape Ann in northeastern Massachusetts. It is part of Boston's North Shore and is recognized as an important center of the fishing industry and a popular summer resort. The town was an important shipbuilding center, and the first schooner was reputedly built there in 1713. The community developed into an important fishing port, largely due to its proximity to Georges Bank and other fishing banks off the east coast of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Gloucester's most famous (and nationally recognized) seafood business was founded in 1849—John Pew & Sons. It became Gorton-Pew Fisheries in 1906, and in 1957 changed its name to Gorton's of Gloucester. The iconic image of the "Gorton's Fisherman," and the products he represents, are known throughout North America. Besides catching and processing seafood, Gloucester is also a center for fish research.

The city was appropriately used as the on-location setting for the adaptation of the book The Perfect Storm. Perhaps the most famous story based in Gloucester is Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling, written in 1897, and made into a movie starring Spencer Tracy in 1937.

Permission to use our copyrighted images of Gloucester, Massachusetts can be obtained from The Crowley Collection for as little as $30US per scan. Scans of other sizes and resolutions can be ordered as required. Print media may obtain one-time use for between $70-100US per image. Unmatted prints of these images are available for as little as $50US per image (8x10 inches or A4). They make wonderful gifts.

The Crowley Collection has extensive photographic libraries of general stock photography and golf images. Additional information can be obtained, and orders placed, by using the contact link at the bottom of this page to reach our principal, Ron Crowley.