glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
USA: Massachusetts: New Bedford ?
Before 1898
6.50 x 8.50 x 0

Glass negative; wharf scene, possibly New Bedford MA; at left foreground is starboard bow of unidentified whaling bark; at right is port stern view of whaleship NIGER, [built 1844, broken up 1897], drying sails; "158" scratched into lower right corner of negative; from the collection of Charles F. Sayle, Sr.

UNIDENTIFIED whaling bark
1994.53.154