Strength of the whale
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Research CatalogImage ID
834466
Item data
Title
Strength of the whale
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
Whaling
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1856
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC WHA
Subjects
Rowboats
Whales
Whaling
Whalers (Persons)
Spear fishing
Genres
Notes
Content: Written on mount: "Mar. 1856" Foxing on image.
Source Note: Harper''s magazine. (New York : Harper Brothers, 1850-).
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17516778
Barcode: 33333159487947
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 5b3461a0-c565-012f-f47b-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1856
Cite this item
MLA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Strength of the whale" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1856. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5b3461a0-c565-012f-f47b-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1856). Strength of the whale Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5b3461a0-c565-012f-f47b-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Strength of the whale" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 14, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/5b3461a0-c565-012f-f47b-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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