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Title: Right whaling in Behering Straits & Arctic Ocean with its varieties
Creator: Russell, Benjamin, 1804-1885, artist
J.H. Bufford's Lith., publisher
Contributor: Congdon, Theodore G., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1871
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Prints and Ephemera
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a large panoramic view of a whaling scene depicting a wide range of whaling activities on various boats and ships, including a whale being harpooned at right; captions printed under the image provide labels for those activities, as well as geographical points; walruses on ice floes at bottom left and right.
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1871 by Benjamin Russell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington."--text, bottom left margin. "From an original drawing by Benjamin Russell, New Bedford, Mass."--text, bottom center margin. "J. H. Buffords Lith. 490 Washington St. Boston, 201 Broadway, New York."--text, bottom right margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed hand colored ; image 41.43 x 83.03 cm (16 5/16 x 32 11/16 in.) ; overall 53.5 x 90.49 cm (21 1/16 x 35 5/8 in.)
Identifier: priTEC 0066
476151
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p9539coll1/id/23939
Language: English
Subject: Ships--Pictorial works
Whaling--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source: Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection.
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Prints
Prints and Ephemera, Huntington Digital Library

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