Inscription on back of photo reads: 'George [Wichie] remembered this whale, about 1905. He was going to hook his team to but the horses didn't like it. Besides he would have been liable for any smell or nuisance. Mr Rigdon got help and rendered it. They used to pait shingle roofs with whale-oil.'
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