Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
The Theodore G. and Eleanor S. Congdon Maritime Collection contains 190 items that pertain to commercial, naval, and recreational maritime-related activities primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. Materials date from approximately 1700 to 1990, with the bulk dating from 1800-1935. The collection consists of prints (engravings, etchings, aquatints, and lithographs), photographs, manuscript materials, publications, portfolios and bound volumes, and a single painting. The items deal primarily with whaling, yachting, and naval battles, and the vessels and people involved in these activities. The collection contains materials as diverse as early 18th-century engravings of whaling expeditions, letters from sailors working on whaling vessels during the 19th century, photographs of yachts competing for the America's Cup in the early 20th century, 19th-century lithographs of naval ships engaged in battle, and letters of marque and safe conduct signed by presidents of the United States, from George Washington to James Buchanan. Includes some letters and bills of sale of William Hathaway Jr. of New Bedford, Massachusetts. These items offer a wealth of information regarding the vessels that operated throughout three centuries, as well as the fishermen, sailors, and sportsmen who manned them.
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Image of a large panoramic view of a whaling scene depicting a wide range of whaling activities on various boats and ships, including whales being harpooned at left and at right; captions printed under the image provide labels for the various stages of the whale hunt.
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Image of a sperm whale rolling on its back with three small boats surrounding it; two boats contain sailors attacking with harpoons, while the third boat is being overturned by the whale; whaling ship in background at right; small depiction of a sperm whale (with a scale showing 10 feet) below main image.
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![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](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4UCXRH6%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
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Image of whaling ships Amelia Wilson & Castor off the Isle of Bouro (Buru, Indonesia) with sailors in several smaller boats engaged in a sperm whale hunt.
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Image of a large panoramic view of a whaling scene depicting a wide range of whaling activities on various boats and ships, including a whale being harpooned at right; captions printed under the image provide labels for those activities, as well as geographical points; walruses on ice floes at bottom left and right.
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Image of a whale breaching the surface of the water, smashing a whaling boat on its back, and throwing men into the sea during a whale hunt; other ships in the background.
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