Exhibit of whaling equipment

photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
after 1915
paper
4 x 5 in.

Photograph mounted on oaktag with 1963.447.1-3; museum exhibit of whaling equipment; one of 13 photographs of whaling memorabilia collected by Robert Cushman Murphy for the Brooklyn Museum prior to 1915; subsequently he bought it back, selling most of it to the Nantucket Whaling Museum, keeping some; model of whaling bark later in Suffolk Museum; according to Murphy these are the only prints and it is unlikely that negatives still extant. See correspondence file. See 1963.447.1-3; 1963.448.1-4; 1963.449.1-2; 1963.450.1-4.


1963.447.1

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