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an elephant seal with a tracker
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Citizens of the High Seas

 In a world where land is partitioned into countries with defined borders, the ocean...
August 2019
A half-cast and skeleton of a humpback whale in the National Museum
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A Half-Cast of a Whale

 Joseph Palmer’s half-cast and skeleton of a humpback whale, shortly after it was...
A blue whale model in the Life in the Sea exhibit
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The Second Whale

 A close-up of the life-size blue whale model in the new “Life in the Sea” hall,...
A model of a right whale hangs in the Ocean Hall
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Phoenix Arrives

 A view of the model of Phoenix in the new Sant Ocean Hall, 2003. ...
A painter sponges grey spots on the model whale
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The Newest Whale

 Exhibits preparator painting the model of Phoenix in 2003. ...
The 1903 blue whale in the Natural History Museum
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A Whale at the Museum

 Remington Kellogg and Leonhard Stejneger with the 1903 blue, or sulphur-bottom,...
a triceratops skeleton and a blue whale model
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The World's Fair

 A view of the National Museum exhibit with the blue whale cast in the U.S....
a worker sits inside the cast of a whale
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The Cast of a Whale

 Workers in the shed in the South Yard behind the Smithsonian building preparing the...
Workers in a shed preparing the cast of the blue whale
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A Whale's Head

 Workers in the shed in the South Yard behind the Smithsonian building preparing the...
Sculptors prepare cast of blue whale's body
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Making a Whale Cast

 Lucas [atop whale] and Scollick [third from left] preparing the cast of the blue...
A view of the blue whale model in the Life in the Sea exhibit hall
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Life in the Sea

 The new blue whale model, as seen from the entrance to the “Life in the Sea”...