Men Cutting into Sperm Whale, Separating the Junk from the Case, on Starboard Side of Whaler CALIFORNIA, 1903

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Black and white photograph facing starboard side of whaler CALIFORNIA cutting into a whale. Two men on ship with spades. Identical to photo in copyrighted series which has caption: "9. Cutting in a sperm whale / Separating the 'junk' from the 'case'. The 'junk' is the lower section of the head next to the scalp bone. This piece weighed about eight tons." See Cutting in a Whale, a series of twenty-five photographs taken aboard bark CALIFORNIA. Copyrighted 1903 by H. S. Hutchinson & Co., New Bedford, MA. See 1947.1596.