"Sperm Whaling, the try-works. Throwing out "scrap""

hand colored lantern slide

PHOTOGRAPHS - LANTERN SLIDES
Murphy, Robert Cushman
USA, MA, New Bedford
circa 1913
glass
4 x 3-1/4 in.

Hand colored lantern slide; photograph by Robert Cushman Murphy while on brig DAISY, circa 1913; handwritten on slide, "Sperm Whaling/ the try-works. Throwing out "scrap"".

1973.189.37