Captain Sidney O. Budington of Groton, and Mate Joseph Neil | CT Digital Archive

Image

Metadata

Handle

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5393

Persons

Persons

Creator (cre): Bishop, Giles

Title

Title

Captain Sidney O. Budington of Groton, and Mate Joseph Neil

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Origin Information

Date Created	1866 (year approximate)

Parent Item

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Resource Type

Digital Origin

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

Description

Studio portrait of two seated men identified as Captain Sidney O. Budington and Mate Joseph Neil (left).

Genre

Genre

portrait photography

Subject

Subject

Whaling masters

Whalers (Persons)

Budington, Sidney O., 1823-1888

Geographic Subject

Geographic Subject

Extent

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : sepia photograph ; 6 3/8 x 4 7/8 in.

Held By

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Use and Reproduction

Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Photography Department, Mystic Seaport, Mystic.

Note

Note

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Lifestyle

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Livelihood

Note	Title supplied by cataloger. On mount, 10 x 8 7/8 in. Whaling master Sidney O. Budington of Groton was the nephew of Captain James M. Buddington and cousin of Captain James W. Buddington. Budington (variant spelling of Buddington) commanded the bark George Henry of New London in 1860 and was master of the vessel Polaris for Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall's ill-fated last polar expedition.

Local Identifier

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1939.1323

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