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Title: "Sperm Whaling, Man down on the head" Accession Number: 1973.189.20 Category: PHOTOGRAPHS - LANTERN SLIDES Type: hand colored lantern slide Maker: Murphy, Robert Cushman Place: USA, MA, New Bedford Date: circa 1913 Materials: glass Description: Hand colored lantern slide; photograph by Robert Cushman Murphy while on brig DAISY, circa 1913; handwritten on slide, "Sperm Whaling/ Man down on the head"; man standing on whale's head in water.

Mystic Seaport Image ID m188396    Information regarding reproductions