IMAGE
Trying out - Illustration of whalers rendering whale blubber into oil on board ship
- Date
- 1874
- Reference
- MNZ-0006-1/4-F
- Description
Photograph of an illustration titled "Trying Out", from `Nimrod of the sea; or, The American whaleman' by William M Davis (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874), showing whalers rendering whale blubber into oil (or `trying out' oil, in old whaling jargon) on the deck of a whaling ship; artist unidentified.
Publication note - Department of Internal Affairs. 1939. `Making New Zealand' 1(4): cover
Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).
Physical Description: Film negative
Provenance: Photograph from the Alexander Turnbull Library, for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication `Making New Zealand' (1939-40).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection
- Format
- 1 b&w copy negative(s), Negatives, Film negative, Orientation: Vertical image
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