Photograph collection, 1870-1988.

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Photograph collection, 1870-1988.

c. 200 tintypes, photographs, photocopies of pictures and portraits, and post cards with scenes of the harbor, shoreline, Main Street, roads and highways, family outings, businesses, homes, sailing vessels, whaling, churches, parades, museum artifacts, fires, mills, and modern vessels that were atteacked by whales. In addition there are photographs of portraits of the Jones family, scrimshaw, sea captains, Long Island Railroad, the fish hatchery, sports teams, and the Whaling Museum, 1870-1980; 900 slides of Cetacea, whale watches, whaling outstations, whaling, whaling museum artifacts and celebrations, and life on a whaler, 1970-1988; 200 post cards of whales, figureheads, museums, paintings of sailing ships and whalers, churches and artifacts, 1909-1980; 2 family photograph albums of the Jones and Hewlett families and relatives in Stockton (California), San Francisco and Brooklyn, 1890-1920.

c. 1300 items and 2 albums

Related Entities

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Long Island Railroad Company.

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Commuter railroad service in Brooklyn dates to 1834 and the founding of the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) during that year. Originally conceived as a means to connect Brooklyn to Boston, Massachusetts more directly, the LIRR played a significant role in the development and economic growth of Long Island's suburban communities, particularly after the railroad was directly linked to Manhattan in the 1880s. As of 2010, the LIRR is the largest and busiest commuter railroad in the United S...

Whaling Museum (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)

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Inventor, whaling master. From the description of Thomas Welcome Roys exhibit collection, 18551-1870. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155567446 ...

Hewlett family.

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Jones family.

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