Congdon (Theodore G. and Eleanor S.) Maritime Collection

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Series I. Commercial

Subseries B. Prints

Pêche au cachalot sur les côtes du Méxique.

Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl. 1.

Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl. 2.

Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl. 3.

Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl. 4.

Abandonment of the whalers in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 1871. Pl. 5.

South Sea Whale Fishery. A representation of the ships Amelia Wilson & Castor off the Isle of Bouro, with their boats & crew in the various process of fishing, showing the manner the spermacetti [sic] whales are caught, also the mode of cutting them into the ship, & boiling the oil upon deck.

South Sea Whale Fishery. A representation of boats attacking a sperm whale from descriptions given by experienced masters and officers in the South Sea Fishery.

Northern Whale Fishery. A representation of the ship Harmony of Hull, & other vessels with their boats & crews in the various process of attacking and killing the whale in Davis Straits and Greenland, with the mode of flinching & taking in the blubber.

A ship on the north-west coast cutting in her last right whale.

[Sailing vessel in Arctic ice.]

Pêche de la Baleine. Whale-Fishery.

Pêche du Cachalot. Chachalot Fishery.

Right whaling in Behering Straits & Arctic Ocean with its varieties.

Sperm whaling with its varieties.

Series II. Naval

Subseries A. Manuscripts

Order of battle and sailing.

Series II. Naval

Subseries B. Prints

H. M. S. Carysfort, 26 guns.

Breaking up of the Agamemnon.

A view of the grand fleet in the order of sailing under the command of Adm. Earl Howe, in 1790 is dedicated by permission to his most gracious majesty William the fourth.

This representation of His Majesty's Ship Majestic, 57 guns, John Hayes, Esq. Captain, meeting with two French frigates, - an American private ship of war, a Spanish Lima ship, - & a brig on the 3rd of Feby. 1814, in Latde. 37 N. and Longde. 20 W. - and capturing one of the frigates : is by gracious permission dedicated to his most excellent majesty William IVth, by his majesty's faithful subject and servant, John Haynes, Capt., R.N., C.B.

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Collection Contents

Series I. Commercial

Subseries A. Manuscripts

Subseries B. Prints

Subseries C. Publications

Series II. Naval

Subseries A. Manuscripts

Subseries B. Prints

Series III. Recreational

Subseries A. Paintings

Subseries B. Photographs

Subseries C. Prints

Subseries D. Publications