Cutting up the blubber

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; group of men cutting up the blubber or black skin; whaling; Black whalemen; slide prepared by the American Museum of Natural History, neg. no. 227993.

1973.189.27