GUSN-191279
Featured in the postcard are rows of casks filled with whale oil. Many are leaking and/or marked with the letters NS. The dock on which they are laid is also home to a very large sailing ship.
whaling
wharves
fisheries
sailing vessels
ports
docks
postcards
photographs
Postcard number G 21734
1 postcard
PC001
General photographic collection
PC001.03.01.TMP.044
Gift
New Bedford (Bristol county, Massachusetts)
Rotograph Co. (New York) (Publisher)
postcards
photographs
Oil
W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 129.
Item
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