Whale Gallery

Norway - Hammerfest - Blue Whale

Hammerfest - a city and municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. A huge Blue Whale has been caught and brough ashore. The whaling crew responsible stand in front of their magnificent catch. Date: 1902

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

1902, Ashore, Blue, County, Finnmark, Fishermen, Fishing, Hammerfest, Narway, Norwegian, Sc Andinavian, Whale, Whalers, Whaling

Trades in Regency England: Grinding cutlery, iron

Trades in Regency England: Grinding cutlery, iron works and flax spinning. Workers seated at grinding wheels in a cutlery factory in Sheffied 58, workers casting iron in moulds in a Rotherham iron-works 59 and women spinning flax or hemp in a cottage in Snaith 60. Woodcut engraving from Rev. Isaac Taylor's Scenes of British Wealth, in Produce, Manufacture and Commerce, John Harris, London, 1823. Isaac Taylor was an English writer, artist, engraver and inventor 1787-1865

© Florilegius

Cetaceans

Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus, short-beaked dolphin, Delphinus delphis, extinct Steller's sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas, West Indian manatee, Trichechus manatus, and narwhal, Monodon monoceros. Lithograph from Lorenz Oken's Universal Natural History, Allgemeine Naturgeschichte fur alle Stande, Stuttgart, 1841. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans