Trypots and Men at Barrels Mincing the Blubber Ready for the Trying Out while Aboard Whaler California, 1903

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Black and white photograph of trypots aboard whaler CALIFORNIA. Four men at barrel, two smoking chimnies of brick tryworks in background. Identical to photo in copyrighted series which has caption: "15. Cutting in a sperm whale / Mincing the 'Blubber' ready for the trying out." 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.