Untitled
Vessel Beluga (Steam Bark)
Artist/Maker Porter, Sophie
Date1896
MediumCyanotype
Dimensions4 × 5 in. (10.2 × 12.7 cm)
Object number2006.9.2.1
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionBlue cyanotype photographic print: Carrie Sherman (Mrs. Albert C. Sherman) holding her daughter Helen Herschel Sherman aboard the auxiliary steamer "Beluga", taken at Herschel Island, NWT, in 1895 by Sophie Porter (Mrs. Captain W.P.S. Porter of the auxiliary bark "Freeman": she was the midwife at Helen's birth on Herschel Island, May 8, 1895). Ex personal collection of Hannah Sherman Raffa (Albert and Carrie Shermans' granddaughter; Helen Sherman's niece).
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