Whalebone Collection

Whaling ship, scraping the whalebone

Whaling ship, removing the whalebone

Whalebones at Teignmouth, Devon - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J. Salmon, and reproduced as a local view postcard

Advert, Bailey Whalebone Pneumatic Road Wagon
Advert for the Bailey Whalebone Pneumatic Road Wagon Date: 1901

Types of hygrometers, 18th century, to measure moisture content. Jean-Andre De Lucs whalebone hygrometer, and others by Horace-Benedict de Saussure, Benjamin Meggot Forster

Advert for L. C. C. womens corsets 1904
Women wearing a corset made from whalebone, shaping the hips and bust. Date: 1904

Just like Mother! A little girl tries on a corset
Just like Mother! A little French girl tries on a corset and checks out the result in an ornate full-length gilt-edged mirror with the aid of a footstool. Date: circa 1905

The Village, Fingringhoe, Essex
The Village, Fingringhoe, Colchester, near Wivenhoe, Essex, England. Showing The Whalebone Public House Date: 1900s

Mademoiselles Dargyl & Ananie de L Opera - Corsets
Mademoiselles Dargyl & Ananie de L Opera - Two French musical actresses, each wearing a fine whalebone corset. The card is entitled La Silhouette Moderne - The Modern Silhouette. Date: circa 1905

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