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      The following is the publication used for the basis of this page:

H.S. Hutchinson (Firm)
      Cutting in a whale; a series of twenty-five photographs taken on board Bark California
H.S. Hutchinson, New Bedford, Mass., [1903]

      This transcription first used the images from the James E. Arsenault & Company website for its sale number 5087. But as not all images were included at this site it was necessary to look elsewhere.

      Digital images of photographs that appeared in the original Hutchinson volume were found at the following sites:

• Mystic Seaport Museum Research Library,
• Nantucket Historical Association Research Library, and the
• New Bedford Whaling Museum

      It was at the last of these the most complete collection of images was found. Additionally, the photographer responsible for the original photographs taken aboard the Bark California was identified as Marian Shaw Smith, the wife of the vessel's captain.

      The captions for the photographs were found in the Library of Congress' Catalogue of Title Entries of Books and other aricles. (Fourth Quarter, 1903, Whole no. 639, V.37, No. 39, Class H. Photographs, pp.624-625 [pp.58-59 of Class H]),

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