New Bedford Whaling Museum
Author
Publisher
Old Dartmouth Historical Society
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
83 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The New Bedford Whaling Museum (NBWM) celebrates the work of the master knot tyer, maritime artist, historian, and author Clifford W. Ashley in a monumental exhibition in two of the Museum's most prestigious galleries. The exhibition premieres the recent gift to the Museum of Ashley's private knot collection alongside interpretive material from the Museum's permanent holdings as well as the artist's paintings, prints, and work by other knot tyers...
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press in association with the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
400 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
History of native and commercial whaling of the bowhead whale in the waters of the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas. Includes chapter on Herschel Island (p.255-89). Well illustrated by 141 black and white photographs.
Author
Publisher
Old Dartmouth Historical Society, Whaling Museum
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detailed descriptions and illustrations of harpoons and other implements of the American whale fishery based principally on the collection at the Whaling Museum of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society. Also includes all whaling implements for which U.S. patents were granted during the nineteenth century.
Publisher
Old Dartmouth Historical Society - New Bedford Whaling Museum
Pub. Date
©2015
Physical Desc
216 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 x 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Serves to illuminate the history and scope of the world's largest museum dedicated to the global interaction of humans with whales, the New Bedford Whaling Museum. It also presents the history of the whaling industry in the New Bedford area. This volume documents the Museum's many superlatives, including the world's largest library of whaling logbooks, prints, and journals and the largest collection of scrimshaw. The Museum collection exceeds more...
Author
Series
Alaska Historical Commission studies in history volume no. 25
Publisher
Alaska Historical Commission
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
ix, 106 p. : ill. ; 22 x 29 cm.
Language
English
13) Scrimshaw
Publisher
Old Dartmouth Historical Society and Whaling Museum
Pub. Date
[ca. 1965]
Physical Desc
4 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Old Dartmouth historical sketches volume no. 82
Publisher
Trustees of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society
Pub. Date
[1981]
Physical Desc
8, [2] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 folded map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Old Dartmouth historical sketches volume no. 81
Publisher
Trustees of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society
Pub. Date
©1981
Physical Desc
15 pages : 1 portrait ; 22 cm.
Language
English
