Fleet of whalers in the port of San Francisco – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Fleet of whalers in the port of San Francisco. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Fleet of whalers in the port of San Francisco
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Few San Francisco views of the 1860s show the working waterfront as directly as this one, with a crowd of whaling ships packed into the harbor. The wood engraving was made from a sketch by M.C. Palmer and published in *Harper's Weekly* on December 24, 1864, when the magazine was among the most widely read illustrated papers in the country. San Francisco was a major outfitting port for American whalers, whose ships hunted across the Pacific and into Arctic waters, so the picture records an industry that shaped the city's maritime life. The masts crowding the frame suggest how many vessels the port handled at once.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Wood engraving after sketch by M.C. Palmer. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1864 Dec. 24, p. 828. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ca.--S- F-; Whales...; Artists, Publ. I.; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 993 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136140 |
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