COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY (20) NEWSPAPERSFROM1849 the Nantucket Inquirer. Contains interesting articles dealing with whaling, the Gold Rush and Emancipation August 5, 1848. An article on a slave, abduction, a buffalo...
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THREE-MONTH JOURNAL, HANDWRITTEN FROMTHE NEWBedford Whaleship America with Captain Charles Seabury in command. She sailed from New Bedford on April 1, 1849 and arrived in San Francisco on September 22 carrying...
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ANTIQUE ENGLISH OAK WHALES FLUKE NEWSPAPERMAGAZINE RAC...Antique English Oak Whales Fluke Newspaper Magazine Rack, circa 1900 , general store advertising display stand.
Height 58.25 in. Width 30 in. Depth 10.25 in.
Condition:...
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19TH C BOOK TITLED ETCHINGS OF A WHALINGCRUISEBY JOHN ROSS BROWNE. HE WAS THE THIRD OF SEVEN CHILDREN BORN TO THOMAS EGERTON BROWNE, AN IRISH NEWSPAPER EDITOR. THOMAS BROWNE WAS A NATIONALIST WHO RAN AFOUL OF...
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COLLECTION OF 3 LARGE ALBUMS CONTAININGadvertisingpamphlets and photographs related to New Bedford. To include: 1847-48 street directory, program for Union Street Railways, EMployee Relief Association, 1905, 1929-1930 New...
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RARE 1794-1803 BOUND VOLUME OF NANTUCKETMERCHANT CORRESPONDENCE 13" X 8.5". MERCHANT CORRESPONDENCE, Includes approx. 25 of Nantucket merchant James Barker (1759–1832)'s transcribed letters to merchants worldwide...
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NEWSPAPER PRINT PERTAINING TO WHALING19TH CENTURY FRAMED 17” X 22.25”., 19th Century, From "Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion". Depicts six whaling vignettes. Dimensions: Framed 17" x 22.25"....
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(4) NAUTICAL ITEMS RELATED TO WHALING.TOinclude: framed early 20th c. photograph of the whaleship Charles W. Morgan docked at Round Hill, sight size 7 3/4" x 9 1/2", overall 8 3/4" x 10 3/4". A framed and glazed...
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IMPORTANT CASED MODEL OF THE AMERICANWHALESHIP "JAMES ARNOLD" CIRCA 1935 CASE HEIGHT 26". LENGTH 31.5". WIDTH 8.25". WHALESHIP "JAMES ARNOLD", Circa 1935, By renowned Boston ship model builder Peter Ness (1890-1976)....
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FIVE 19TH C CUSTOMS DOCUMENTS, JAPANESEON RICEPAPER. RANGE IN SIZE FROM 11 1/2" TO 19". UNDATED. ONE IS FOR CLEARANCE ADDRESSED TO CAPTAIN PIERCE FOR THE SHIP "ROUSSEAU". ANOTHER IS FOR THE BARK "THOMAS DICKERSON"....
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9 CARVED WOODEN FOLK ART FIGURES ALLRELATED TOMOBY DICK, LATE 20TH C, CARVED BY LESTER RUSSELL ALLEN, SR (1900-1992). HE WAS A DEDICATED WOOD CARVER AND AN EDITOR FOR THE BOSTON POST NEWSPAPER. 13" TO 19...
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SEVEN PIECE EPHEMERA LOT RELATED TOWHALING. TOINCLUDE: 1) CLOTH BOUND BOOK TITLED “BIRTH OF A WHALE SHIP” BY REGINALD B HEGARTY. PUBLISHED BY NEW BEDFORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 1964. COVER DESIGNED BY MILTON...
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THE YANKEE WHALER BOOK BY CLIFFORD ASHLEY,RIVERSIDEPRESS, CAMBRIDGE, MA. 1926. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED AND NUMBERED 4 OF 625, OF WHICH 56 ARE NUMBERED. ALSO CONTAINS THE SOUGHT AFTER ORIGINAL DRAWING OF A WHALER, SIGNED BY ASHLEY...
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