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July 1, 1948 story of Frank Cabral, Jr. falling off a lobster boat and landing on a whale! Also...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Text

Subjects: Fishers--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Whalers (Persons), and Whaling

Captain Ed Walter Smith intervieded about whaling at age 88 in June 1939.

Collection: Dowd

Format: Newsprint

Subjects: Biography, Whalers (Persons), Whaling masters, Whaling--Massachusetts--History, and Whaling--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History

Two postcard photos...one of a lobsterman's dory at Herring Cove Beach and the other of William...

Collection: Dowd

Format: Artwork

Subjects: Barnstable County (Mass.) History, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Dories (boats), Gull Hill (Provincetown, Mass.), Provincetown (Mass.)--History--20th century, Whalers (Persons), Whaling, and Boxell, Althea

Reference list of Provincetown Whaling Journals that are held at the Providence, RI Public Library.

Collection: Municipal

Format: Text

Subjects: And God Created Great Whales, Boats and boating, Cape Cod (Mass.) History, Captains, Docks, Fish trade--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Fishermen, Fishing boats--Massachusetts--Provincetown, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--18th century, Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Sailing ships, Sailors, Shipping, Waterfronts, Whale Watching--History--Provincetown, Whalers (Persons), Whaling, Whaling masters, Whaling--Massachusetts--History, Whaling--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History, and Wharfs

A copy of "And God Created Great Whales" by . The story of George Osbonn Knowles and...

Collection: Municipal

Format: Text

Subjects: Provincetown (Mass.)--History--19th century, Whalers (Persons), Whaling--Massachusetts--Provincetown--History, and And God Created Great Whales