Spitzbergen - Whaling

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Title: Spitzbergen - Whaling
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Natural Resources, Burials - Cemeteries, Geography
Condition: Fair
Description: Album Cover: "To the man who started it all John M Longyear from his former clerk care S. Sather 1921." Hollander - Grave, Amsterdam Island See page 16 - Spitsbergen's Nature and History - for inscription [A man looks at a large stone grave marker].
Source of Description: Album cover. Front of photograph. [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Longyear Family
Date of Photo: c1921
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 10.9 cm x 14.9 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS031-01-02-31
Collection Name: Longyear Spitsbergen Collection
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• Amsterdam Island, in north-west Svalbard, was the location of a major 17th century Dutch whaling settlement, Smeerenburg.
4/9/2008 1:23:34 PM by cchartne, Svalbard Researcher