File:Man holding whale baleen, ca 1918 (MOHAI 6322).jpg

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English: Man holding whale baleen, ca. 1918   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Webster & Stevens
Title
English: Man holding whale baleen, ca. 1918
Description
English: Certain kinds of whales have baleen plates in their mouths. These huge triangular plates have fringed edges through which the whale strains its food from the water. Between the 1840s and the early 1900s, thin, plastic-like strips of baleen were used to stiffen corsets, collars, skirts, umbrellas, and buggy whips. Right whales and bowheads, which had long fringes of baleen, were hunted nearly to extinction.

In this photo, a man stands by a pile of whale baleen, holding the upper jaw of a whale with a row of baleen plates hanging from it. The plates sometimes measured nine feet long. The photo was probably taken at the American Pacific Whaling company's Bay City whaling station at Gray's Harbor, between 1911 and 1925.

  • Subjects (LCTGM): American Pacific Whaling Company; Whales; Whaling
Depicted place
English: Bay City (Wash.) Grays Harbor (Wash.)
Date circa 1918
date QS:P571,+1918-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 photographic print mounted on linen: gelatin, b&w
Dimensions height: 20 cm (7.8 in); width: 25 cm (9.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,20U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,25U174728
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
6322
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
Permission
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Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
Credit Line
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PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved

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