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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: January 29, 2013
Caption: Try-pot in The Old Whaling Station garden
Additional Description: The plaque reads: Whalers’ Try-pot This try-pot was used for melting down whale blubber into oil. Pots on whaling ships were positioned side by side on the deck. In Monterey the blubber was cut into pieces and boiled into oil on shore in front of the Old Whaling Station.
Submitted: February 7, 2013, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p233197
File Size: 3.624 Megabytes

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