OLD MERRILL'S WHARF/ IN 1800'S

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
USA, MA, New Bedford
1837 - 1863
4.00 x 3.38 x 0

Glass negative; view of Merrill's Wharf, New Bedford MA; horse and carriage in foreground; evidence of light snowfall; whaling casks at right, whaling barks, some dismasted, at far right; M.E. Hatch & Co. ice building at end of wharf; scratched into top of negative "Old Merrills Wharf No 5"; information from original envelope "WHALING HISTORICAL ORIGINAL NEGATIVE [check mark next to "negative"] OLD MERRILL'S WHARF/ IN 1800'S/ STEREO PRINT IN / N.B. FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY/ COLLECTION".

UNIDENTIFIED whaling vessel
1994.53.29