Sperm Whaling From New Bedford: Clifford W. Ashley's Photographs of Bark Sunbeam in 1904
by: Hall, Elton W./Clifford W. Ashley (Photographer)

Hardcover. New Bedford MA, Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 221 pages, b&w photographs. The photographs and descriptive captions provide a wealth of information on the whaling vessel, its gear, shipboard routine, whaleboats, and the cutting in and processing of whales. The photographs the artist Ashley took for his own reference and constitute the most complete known pictorial record of a sperm whaling voyage. ... The photographs and descriptive captions provide a wealth of information on the whaling vessel, its gear, shipboard routine, whaleboats, and the cutting of whales. No dust jacket. Clean copy.