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[Return of the whaler] – Antique Wall Art

[Return of the whaler] — historic image
[Return of the whaler]. Historic image from the Sailing & Yachts collection.

(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.)

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The title, *Return of the whaler*, points to the homecoming rather than the hunt, and the record credits L.D. Eldred as the named subject. American whaling voyages often lasted three or four years, so a ship returning to port marked the end of a long absence, when the crew was paid off and the cargo of whale oil and baleen was unloaded. Scenes like this were popular with nineteenth-century photographers and printmakers, when whaling was a major industry in New England ports.

SubjectsEldred, L.D.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan10,410 × 7,162 px · prints to 35 × 24 in at 300 dpi
Reference8

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