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a woman's hands close a tin of sardines near a pile of empty cans
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Nimble Fingers: the Women Behind Maine’s Canneries

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Two men each hold a ceramic vessel at the archaeological excavation
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Archaeologists Study Early Whaling Community in Quebec, Canada

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an older woman with short white hair smiles while sitting by a microscope
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Pettibone at the Scope

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a boat frame and a frame covered in seal skin
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Bearded Seal Skin Frame

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rows of women in a sardine factory at their tables with sardines on them
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Wilson Sardine Workers

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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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a woman's hands close a tin of sardines near a pile of empty cans
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Cans from Lubec

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Fresh Shellfish for Sale in Vietnam
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Fresh Shellfish for Sale

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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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As soon as Dampier set foot in Australia, he began making observations and collecting specimens of plants, which he carefully pressed between the pages of books to be studied by the “ingenious” and “curious” upon his return to England. As Dampier conducted his investigations, his artist made detailed sketches like these.
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Australian Plants

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The Charles W. Morgan tallship
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Charles W. Morgan

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North Atlantic right whales were long hunted for their baleen—the fringed plates hanging in their mouths that they use to strain the seawater for food. Baleen was used in a number of consumer products, such as corsets.
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Whale Baleen from a Dead Whale

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