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Lewis
Temple, Blacksmith
Ne w Bedford, Massachusetts 1829-1854
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Selected Bibliography
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Aanseng,
Nathan. Black Inventors. (American
Profiles). New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1997.
Chapter 1 covers Lewis Temple.
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Ashley,
Clifford W. The Yankee Whaler.
Introduction by Robert Cushman Murphy. Boston and
New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926. Pages 86,
87 include detailed descriptions of the Temple toggle
harpoon and its value to the whale- fishery.
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Boss,
Judith A. New Bedford, A Pictorial History.
Photographs by Joseph D. Thomas. Norfolk, VA:
The Donning Company/Publishers, 1983. Page 62 includes
a photograph of Lewis Temple and a brief biographical
sketch.
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Busch,
Briton Cooper. Whaling Will Never Do
for Me: The American Whaleman in the Nineteenth
Century. Lexington, Kentucky:
The University Press of Kentucky, 1994. A
brief mention on page 33.
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Goode,
George Brown. The Fisheries and Fishery Industries
of the United States, Section v, History and Methods
of the Fisheries. Washington: Government
Printing Office, 1887. Page 251. |
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Hayden,
Robert C. African-Americans & Cape Verdean-Americans
in New Bedford: A History of Community and Achievement.
Boston, MA: Select Publications, 1993. Pages 15, 50,
63, 115 including material on the statue of Lewis
Temple in front of the New Bedford Free Public Library
created by sculptor Jim Toatley. |
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Hayden,
Robert C. Eight Black American Inventors.
Reading, MA: 1972. Chapter 3, “Lewis Temple”.
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Kaplan,
Sidney. “Lewis Temple and the Hunting of the
Whale,” The New England Quarterly,
Vol. 26, No.1 (March, 1953), pages 78-88. A scholarly
biography.
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Lytle,
Thomas G. Harpoons and Other Whalecraft.
New Bedford, MA: The Old Dartmouth Historical Society
Whaling Museum, 1984. Important chapters relating
to New Bedford ship smiths in general and Lewis
Temple in particular.
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McKissack,
Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack. Black
Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American
Whalers. New York: Scholastic Press,
1999. Pages 56-57 include a brief biographical sketch.
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[Taber,
Charles, and Co. ] The New Bedford Directory,
Containing the City Register, A General Directory
of the Citizens, and A Special Directory, of Trades,
Professions, Etc. New Bedford, MA: Charles
Taber & Co., 1836-1854.
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Spears,
John R. The Story of the New England Whalers.
New York: The Macmillan Co. , 1908. A brief
mention on page 207.
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Webb,
Robert Lloyd. On the Northwest: Commercial
Whaling in the Pacific Northwest, 1790-1967.
Vancouver , BC: University of British Columbia
Press, 1988. Page 71 refers to Temple's invention
coming too late for popular use on the Northwest
Coast
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