Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whaleship
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Picture Gallery
"Gold From Sea Water" Cartoon
"There She Blows"
4 Generations
A Short and Greasy Voyage
A Visit to the Wharf, Nantucket
Abandoning the Barks in the Ice,
Abandonment of the Whalers, 1871
Abington Island
Alameda Train Terminal
Animals on Board
Artwork from the Logbook of the Alexander Barclay
Attacking a Right Whale
Bailing the Case
Bailing the Case
Baleen Bundles
Bark Catalpa in New Bedford
Bark Greyhound in the Fog
Bark Swallow
Before the Trypots
Blacksmith at Work in New Bedford
Blanket Pieces on the Schooner John R. Manta
Bliss House, North Water Street, Edgartown
Bottling Sperm Oil
Bowhead Jawbone with Baleen Plates
Bowhead Whale Jaw with Baleen
Breaking Through the Ice
Brigham Young
Brigham Young and His Wives
Brown University
Building a Try Works
Building Casks on the Wharf
Building the Hull
Captain James Earle Family on CW Morgan
Captain Jared Jernegan
Captain Jared Jernegan Seated
Captain Nathan Jernegan
Captain Thomas Mellen
Captains of the Stone Fleet
Capture of a Sperm Whale
Carlton and His Ma, Laura
Caulking
Caulking
Charles W. Fisher
Child in Gamming Chair
Cliff House and Seal Rocks, San Francisco
Cosmopolitan Hotel, San Francisco
Crew Members Onboard with an Accordian
Cumberland Bay at Juan Fernandes
Cutting In (The Whale)
Cutting In a Whale
Cutting In and Trying Out
Cutting Stage
Davis Academy
Davis Lane, Edgartown, Massachusetts
Destruction of the Whaling Fleet in the Arctic
Discipline on the Ship
Dr. Daniel Fisher
Dr. John Pierce
Edgartown Waterfront
Edwin Booth
Family Onboard
Farm Neck School
Federated Church, Edgartown, Massachusetts
Fitting out the Sunbeam
Fort and Hotel Streets, Honolulu
Four Generations of Clarks
Frontal View Photo of Laura as an Adult
Giant Petrel on Deck
Goats Onboard
Gone Aground
Grinding and Pressing Spermaceti for Oil
Harpooning a Porpoise
Helen Clark Jernegan
Helen Jernegan
Helen, Elderly - Standing
Helen, Marcus, Prescott & Laura
Helping with the Harvest
Hoisting a Blanket Piece Aboard the Vessel
Honolulu and Punchbowl Crater from the Harbor
Honolulu Steamer Ajax
Honolulu, Diamond Head
Honolulu, Hotel and Union Streets
Honolulu, Sandwich Islands
Horse and Carriage on School Street, Edgartown
Ice floes in the Arctic
Inuit Native
Jared Jernegan
Jared Jernegan at 53 in 1878
Jared Jernegan, Older
Jernegan's House on South Summer Street
Lancing a Sperm Whale (Killing the Whale)
Launching the Whale Boat
Laundry Hanging on Deck
Laura & Fannie in Honolulu
Laura and her Husband, Herbert Spear
Laura as a Toddler
Laura as a Young Woman in a Cape
Laura as a young woman with Collar
Laura as an Adult
Laura at age 21
Laura at Age 30
Laura at Age 9
Laura at Age Nine
Laura at Age Three
Laura Jernegan
Laura Jernegan's Wedding Photo
Laura Standing
Laura's Profile as an Adult
Life in the Forecastle
Livestock on Board the Ship
Logbook Art: Baleen Whale
Logbook Stamp
Main Street, Edgartown
Main Street, Edgartown, Massachusetts
Making Sails
Marcus Adult
Marcus Ten Years Old
Mealtime on a Whaler
Merrill's Wharf in 1870
Mincing
Mincing the Blubber
Monohansett
Morman Temple
Nantucket Sleigh Ride
Nathan Jernegan
New Bedford Cordage Company
New Bedford Wharf
New England Conservatory, Boston Massachusetts
North School, Edgartown Massachusetts
Old Whaler
Osborne's Wharf, Edgartown, Massachusetts
Painting of the Whale Hunt
Painting of Whaleship from the Logbook of the Ship Iris
Paul Cuffe
Perilous Situation of Whalemen
Perils of the Hunt
Phillips Academy Andover
Prescott Jernegan
Pumping Oil From the Casks
Queen Street, Honolulu
Receiving the Crews
Record of the Catch
Return of the Whaler
Riding out a Gale
Right Whaling off the Northwest Coast
Rounding Cape Horn
Sailing Day for the Wanderer
Sailors on Mast Head
Salt Lake Theatre
San Francisco, 1853
Saying Farewell
School Street, Edgartown Massachusetts
Scramble for Salt Junk
Ship Being Towed Out of Port
Ship Iris' Logbook Title Page
Ship Lucy Ann
Ship Sunbeam Hove Down
Ship Under Sail
Ship Wanderer
Shipkeeper, Frank Lewis
Ships Boring and Warping in the Ice
Ships in the Arctic Ice
Shipwright's Place of Business
Skating Rink in Cottage City
Soldiers & Sailors Monument New Bedford
South Summer Street, Edgartown
Sperm Whale Chase
Squall Off Cape Horn
Striking a Whale
Sunbeam Lowering Boats (The Boats are Launched)
Taking Right Whale Head
Tending the Try-works
The Chase (The Blubber Hunters)
The Lookout
the Navigator
The Ship
The Whale's Final Moments
Too Late to Lower the Boats
Towing a Whale to the Ship
Townsend House Interior
Townsend House, Salt Lake City, Utah
Try Pot and Try Works Aboard a Whaler
Try-Pots on Shore
Under Sail
Up in the Rigging
Volcano Errupting at Fogo, Azores
Whale Paintings in a Logbook
Whale Stamp
Whaleboat
Whaleboat Chasing a Whale
Whaleboat Crushed by a Whale
Whaleboat From Bark Latina
Whalers in Oakland Estuary
Whaling Church, Edgartown, Mass.
Whaling Wives
Wharf New Bedford
Wharf Scene New Bedford
William Rodman House
Stories
The Story of Whaling
Laura's Story
Interactives
Explore Laura's Journal
About Whales
Timeline
Map of Whaling
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Meet the Crew
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