Dead blackfish on beach
Dead blackfish on beach
- Description (Brief)
- black and white stereograph mounted on buff colored cardstock; photograph by J. Freeman; printed on recto "J. Freeman, / Nantucket."; dead blackfish lying on pebbly/sandy beach and in shallow water; men walking among fish in background
- Object Name
- stereograph
- date made
- mid-late 1800s
- associated place
- United States: Massachusetts, Nantucket Island, Nantucket
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 7 in; 8.89 cm x 17.78 cm
- ID Number
- 2012.3033.0567
- nonaccession number
- 2012.3033
- catalog number
- 2012.3033.0567
- subject
- Whaling
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- Work and Industry: Photographic History
- Photography
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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