Whaling schooner A.T. Gifford in winter quarters, Hudson Bay, Canada

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5477

Persons

Title

Whaling schooner A.T. Gifford in winter quarters, Hudson Bay, Canada

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1907 to 1912

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

View of the whaling schooner A.T. Gifford in winter quarters, west coast of Hudson Bay, Canada, ca. 1907-1912. People can be seen around the vessel, which appears to be banked with snow.

Genre

Subject

A.T. Gifford (Schooner)

Geographic Subject

East Haddam (Conn.)

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : glassplate negative ; 5 x 7 in.

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

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

Note

Note Type	source note
Note	Comer Collection

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Environment

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Livelihood

Note

Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo # 23. The schooner A.T. Gifford was built in 1883 at Essex, Massachusetts. George Comer was her master during one of his Arctic voyages in which he mapped areas in the Hudson Bay area. Taken by Captain George Comer (1858-1937), 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. Comer participated in voyages involved in polar expeditions and was noted for his studies of Arctic peoples and their environment.

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1963.1767.241

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Whaling schooner A.T. Gifford in winter quarters, Hudson Bay, Canada

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