"A Northern Whaling Scene," Scammon's Marine Mammals, 1874
About it
Whale ships and their boats among the right whales and bowheads of the far North Pacific, drawn by a whaling captain who knew the grounds. The Globe hunted these waters from 1846 to 1849, the “N.W. Coast” of the whalemen, which by then reached from the Gulf of Alaska to Kamchatka. Scammon wrote of “dismal fogs” and “standing mast-heads in the biting cold.”
- Related to
- Richard Blackmer Holbrook
- Credit
- C. M. Scammon, del., lithographed by Britton & Rey, Plate XXVI in Charles M. Scammon, *The Marine Mammals of the North-western Coast of North America* (San Francisco: John H. Carmany, 1874). Smithsonian Libraries, via the Internet Archive (marinemammalsofn00scam); public domain; cropped and turned upright
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