[Whaling scenes at Skaaro, The "Nancy Grey" with a whale, Norway] – Antique Print
![[Whaling scenes at Skaaro, The "Nancy Grey" with a whale, Norway], 1890s — historic image](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/78/783fefd2b9aa-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: [Whaling scenes at Skaaro, The "Nancy Grey" with a whale, Norway], preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Whaling scenes at Skaaro, The "Nancy Grey" with a whale, Norway]
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Few pictures on this board show a ship and a captured whale together as directly as this one, which names the vessel, the *Nancy gray*, and the Norwegian place, Skaaro. The image is a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland in the 1880s that produced vivid prints from photographs, and the Detroit Publishing Company later sold such views widely in the United States. Norwegian whaling expanded in the late 1800s after Svend Foyn's explosive harpoon made it possible to kill larger rorquals, so scenes like this one record a working industry at a time of rapid change.
| Created / published | 1890s |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,600 × 2,600 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 4 |
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