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In the 19th century, many women wore tight corsets that were stiffened with stays made from baleen.
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Whale Products in Fashion

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This illustration shows whalers of the early 1800s with their highly profitable catch.
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Whalers in the early 1800s

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Close-up of a 17th century painting shows how whales were brought ashore for processing and their blubber rendered into marketable oil.
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Basque Whalers

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Whalers hunted right whales for baleen, which was used in a variety of commercial products such as umbrellas and whips.
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Ad for Whale Baleen Umbrellas

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Yankee Whalers: An 1856 Currier & Ives print shows whalers harpooning a right whale.
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The “Right” Whale to Hunt

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A sea monster attacks a wooden ship
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Sea Monsters of an Early Atlas

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eskimos land a skin boat in the ice
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Siberian Yupik Eskimo Skin Boat

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Blackbeard may have been the most notorious pirate of all. Fierce and ferocious-looking, he stood 6’4” tall and had wild eyes and an explosive temper. To add to the effect, he tucked slow-burning cannon fuses under his hat.
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Portrait of Blackbeard

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This 1890 painting of Charles Darwin is on display at the Turin Museum of Human Anatomy.
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Charles Darwin

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A researcher holds a maritime archaic point made of ramah chert that was found at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada in 2011
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Ancient Maritime Archaic Indian Point

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a group of women in period dresses from 1912 stand outside a factory with smoking stacks
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The Columbia Canning Plant

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This watercolor painting shows William Dampier venturing into the unknown aboard a pirate ship.
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Dampier on the High Seas

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