- On Board
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Nantucket Sleigh Ride
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Bowhead Jawbone with Baleen Plates
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Sunbeam Lowering Boats (The Boats are Launched)
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Mincing
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Mincing the Blubber
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Volcano Errupting at Fogo, Azores
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Scramble for Salt Junk
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Lancing a Sperm Whale (Killing the Whale)
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Blanket Pieces on the Schooner John R. Manta
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Hoisting a Blanket Piece Aboard the Vessel
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Before the Trypots
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A Short and Greasy Voyage
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Cutting In (The Whale)
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Cutting In and Trying Out
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Cutting Stage
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Discipline on the Ship
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Cutting In a Whale
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Child in Gamming Chair
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Livestock on Board the Ship
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Life in the Forecastle
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Striking a Whale
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Harpooning a Porpoise
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Goats Onboard
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Captain James Earle Family on CW Morgan
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Mealtime on a Whaler
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Riding out a Gale
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Ships in the Arctic Ice
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Capture of a Sperm Whale
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Sperm Whale Chase
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"There She Blows"
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Towing a Whale to the Ship
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Tending the Try-works
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Building a Try Works
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Perilous Situation of Whalemen
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Right Whaling off the Northwest Coast
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Family Onboard
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the Navigator
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Sailors on Mast Head
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Whaleboat Chasing a Whale
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Whaleboat Crushed by a Whale
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- On Land
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Merrill's Wharf in 1870
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Wharf Scene New Bedford
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Baleen Bundles
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Bark Catalpa in New Bedford
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Building Casks on the Wharf
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Edgartown Waterfront
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Osborne's Wharf, Edgartown, Massachusetts
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Blacksmith at Work in New Bedford
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Fitting out the Sunbeam
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Return of the Whaler
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The Ship
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Building the Hull
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Shipwright's Place of Business
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Bottling Sperm Oil
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Saying Farewell
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Making Sails
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Caulking
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New Bedford Wharf
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Whaleboat
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New Bedford Cordage Company
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Grinding and Pressing Spermaceti for Oil
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- Ships at Sea
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