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Drying whalebone on deck, Arctic.
Drying whalebone on deck, Arctic.
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Drying whalebone on deck, Arctic.
Number 37 in a series of 37 photos compiled by Captain C.T. Pedersen, whaler and trader in the Arctic. Likely a bowhead whale. Annotated: 'An average of about 2,000 obs. of bone is take from the mouth of a full grown whale. This bone, or baleen, was used in the manufacture of sild, and also for corsets. The price was once as high as $7.00 per pound.'
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Date
[ca. 1920]
Creator
Unknown
Genre
Photographs
Subject
Ships
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Whaling and whalers
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Wood family fonds
Unique identifier
CU1228032
Legacy Identifier
pa-3886-65-37
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"Drying whalebone on deck, Arctic.", [ca. 1920], (CU1228032) by Unknown. Courtesy of Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.
Unique identifier:
CU1228032
Legacy Identifier:
pa-3886-65-37
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Glenbow
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4447px × 2698px 11.47 MB
