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Description
Captain William Sylvester removing the baleen, or whalebone, of a 50-foot whale. The baleen was typically the first part removed from a whale carcass.
This finback whale was discovered by local lobster fisherman after a large storm washed it ashore on Ragged Island in Harpswell. It had been dead some time.
Sylvester, a local whaler, considered the whale was about 75 years old and supervised the process of cutting up the carcass.
Captain William Sylvester was a whaler for 40 years in New Bedford, Massachusetts. At the time of this photograph, he lived on Orr's Island with the other men who helped cut up the whale.
About This Item
- Title: Removing the whalebone, Ragged Island, 1927
- Creator: Portland Evening Express
- Creation Date: 1927-02-23
- Subject Date: 1927-02-23
- Location: Ragged Island, Harpswell, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 8.3 cm x 10.8 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1949, 2005.061.14630
- Collection: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection
- Object Type: Image
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