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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
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Subject
Ships
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Whaling and whalers
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Repository
Glenbow Archives
Fonds/Collection
Wood family fonds
Reference code
CA ACU GBA F1961-S0006-SS0002
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https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/stuart-taylor-woods-photographs
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 Glenbow Library and Archives Collection, Libraries and Cultural Resources Digital Collections, University of Calgary.