Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Black and white print of whaling ships; seventeen whaling vessels are on the edge of an ice field. All the ships names are listed below the image and above the title.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Bufford, John Henry
- Newell, J.P.
- original artist
- Russell, Benjamin
- Date made
- 1872
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- Measurements
- image: 14 1/4 in x 21 in; 36.195 cm x 53.34 cm
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
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