Keywords: whaling
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Historical Items
These results include photographs, documents, letters, paintings, artifacts, and many other kinds of Maine related items from collections around the state and elsewhere.
Item 11488
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1900 Media: Steel
Item 23626
Men carrying a whale fin, Ragged Island, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1927-02-23 Location: Harpswell Media: Glass Negative
Item 16477
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1790 Media: Pewter
Item 23625
Removing the whalebone, Ragged Island, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1927-02-23 Location: Harpswell Media: Glass Negative
Item 101385
Captain Andrew Peterson, Monhegan, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Monhegan Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Monhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 25103
Removing whale blubber, Ragged Island, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1927-02-23 Location: Harpswell Media: Glass Negative
Item 25105
Beached whale, Ragged Island, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1927-02-23 Location: Harpswell Media: Glass Negative
Item 25101
Fishermen with beached whale, Ragged Island, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1927-02-23 Location: Harpswell Media: Glass Negative
Item 25104
Beached whale on Ragged Island, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1927-02-23 Location: Harpswell Media: Glass Negative
Item 25096
Chester Black cutting beached whale, Ragged Island, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1927-02-23 Location: Harpswell Media: Glass Negative
Item 25098
Albert Doughty and Chester Black with beached whale, Ragged Island, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1927-02-23 Location: Harpswell Media: Glass Negative
Item 7531
Glooskap and Keanke spearing the whale, 1884
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1884 Media: Ink on paper
Item 26563
Loading whale boat film, Mt. Desert, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Northeast Historic Film Date: circa 1940 Media: filmstrip, 16mm
Item 25102
Stripping blubber, Ragged Island, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1927-02-23 Location: Harpswell Media: Glass Negative
Item 48948
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Media: Baleen, whale bone, metal
Item 16809
Contributed by: Davistown Museum Date: circa 1850 Media: Forged iron, welded cast steel, iron ferrule
Item 7532
Glooskap looking at the whale smoking his pipe, 1884
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1884 Media: Ink on paper
Item 1136
Clothing store advertisement, Bath, ca. 1886
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1886 Location: Bath Media: Ink on paper
Item 18085
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1830 Location: Warren Media: Brass
Item 18088
Contributed by: An individual through Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1840 Location: Warren Media: Brass
Item 102289
Goat Island Lighthouse, Cape Porpoise, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Brick Store Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Cape Porpoise Media: Glass Negative
Item 9749
Entries from 'Emerald' log book, 1859
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1859 Media: Ink on paper
Item 25678
Col. Harmon's attack on Somerset Point, 1722
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1722 Media: Ink on paper
Item 50319
"Kasuga" and sailors, Portland Harbor, 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1920 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
