Artist/Maker
Agard, Charles Walter--1848-1913
DateCirca 1910
MediumAlbumen Print
Dimensions3 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (9.5 × 12.1 cm)
Object number2000.100.209
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionTwo men stand side-by-side on the larboard side looming forward on the deck of a whale ship. Inscribed on verso: "Joseph A. Lima, oldest whalebone handler and scraper in New Bedford (on the right)", The man on the left is Azorean immigrant Peter Black (1828-1915) who joined the U.S. Navy in the 1840s and rose to become one of the finest master riggers in the service. Black opened a rigging loft in New Bedford in the 1880s. Joseph A. Lima was also a shipkeeper, or watchman.On View
Not on view![[U. S consular document issued to George H. Taber aboard the brig Le Baron of Fairhaven, MA, by the American Consul in Pernambuco, Brazil]](/internal/media/dispatcher/92244/thumbnail)
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