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| Unique
resource for information and cultural insights
about whales and whaling worldwide, spanning the
seven seas and all seven continents. |
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Library houses a vast collection of books and
periodicals documenting the association of humans
and cetacea from the earliest times to the present. |
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| Identify
plastics "scrimshaw" fakes and frauds:
a comprehensive catalogue with easily searchable
text and explanatory essays. |
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| Search
our inventory of shipboard logbooks and journals
by date, ship, master, home port, and destination. |
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| Trace
the history of American whaling and the diverse,
polyglot cultures that participated at home and
abroad. |
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| The
rise of a most diverse and interesting city–Whaling
Capital of the World, abolitionist bastion, refuge
for immigrants and escaped slaves, manufacturing
center, fishing port, and cultural melting pot. |
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| From
Colonial times to the twentieth century, men of
African ancestry were active in New England’s
whaling industry as sailors, blacksmiths, shipbuilders,
officers, & owners. |
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| America’s
highly diversified whaling industry even influenced landlocked
states far from the sea. |
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| The
Melville Society’s extensive library and
archival collection, housed at the Research Library. |
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| Beginning
in 1866, New Bedford became almost as famous for
art glass as it was for whaling. |
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| Technological
innovations and tools of the whaling industry. |
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