GUSN-191290
Full-color postcard depicting the hunting of a sperm whale. Six men man a whale boat that has launched from a nearby ship. The small boat is in danger of capsizing in the rough water created by the struggling whale.
whaling
whaling vessels
whaleboats
postcards
photographs
Postcard number 2052
1 postcard
PC001
General photographic collection
1916-08-15
PC001.03.02.TMP.005
Gift
New Bedford (Bristol county, Massachusetts)
H.S. Hutchinson & Co. (New Bedford, Mass.) (Publisher)
postcards
photographs
Sperm whale
W.H.Bunting, The Camera's Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England (Boston: Historic New England, 2006) pg. 127.
Item
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