Captain George Comer of East Haddam in the rigging of the schooner A.T. Gifford

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Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:2908

Title

Captain George Comer of East Haddam in the rigging of the schooner A.T. Gifford

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1907 (year approximate)

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

A man identified as Captain George Comer stands in the rigging of a ship identified as the A.T. Gifford. Barrels are partially visible in the dock area in the foreground.

Genre

Subject

Geographic Subject

Extent

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

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Note

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Livelihood

Note

Title supplied by cataloger. On rear, typewritten: "Captain Comer, standing in the/ rigging of his ship, tied up/ at the Steamboat Wharf, in/ New London, Connecticut./ Charles H. Morris." Also in pencil: "A.T. GIFFORD/ (Stamford owners)/ about 1907". Captain George Comer (1858-1937) was a sealer and whaling captain from East Haddam. He went to sea while still in his teens and was later master of vessels from both New London and New Bedford, and participated in voyages involved in polar expeditions. Comer was noted for his studies of Arctic peoples and their environment. The schooner A.T. Gifford was built in 1883 at Essex, Massachusetts. While in command of her, Comer mapped areas in the Hudson Bay area.

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1950.1546

IMG0058-4768.tif

Captain George Comer of East Haddam in the rigging of the schooner A.T. Gifford

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