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Capturing white whales

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Image ID

834491


Item data

Title

Capturing white whales

Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection
Whaling

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1869

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC WHA

Subjects

Whaling
Harpoons

Genres

Prints

Notes

Content: Illegible artist monogram at lower left of image.
Source Note: Struggles and triumphs : forty years'' recollections of P.T. Barnum. (Hartford, Conn : J. B. Burr, 1869) Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor) (1810-1891), Author.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17516778
Barcode: 33333159487673
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 53f49140-c565-012f-d64c-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1869

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Capturing white whales" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1869. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/53f49140-c565-012f-d64c-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1869). Capturing white whales Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/53f49140-c565-012f-d64c-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Capturing white whales" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 14, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/53f49140-c565-012f-d64c-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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