‘Whaling Off the Coast of California’; chalk drawing by a ship’s mate on the Joseph Grinnell, circa 1860

Whaling Off the Coast of California; a chalk drawing

‘Whaling Off the Coast of California’; chalk drawing by a ship’s mate on the Joseph Grinnell, circa 1860

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