File:Outing (1889) p116 - Whaling - Towing ashore the empty casks.jpg

English: Towing ashore the empty casks. Taken from an article published by the "Outing Magazine (1889), "Whaling" by Herbert L. Aldrich. Aldrich sailed from San Francisco aboard the bark Young Phoenix (sometimes called the Young Phenix) on March 3, 1887. During the course of his journey, Aldrich was a passenger aboard the bark Eliza, the bark Hunter, the steam bark Balaena, the steam bark Lucretia, the steam bark Beluga, and the steam bark Thrasher, finally returning to San Francisco on October 25, 1887 aboard the steam bark Orca. The New Bedford Whaling Museum’s Aldrich Collection of photographs consists of 258 images captured by journalist Herbert L. Aldrich (1860-1948) during the 1887 Arctic whaling season. Aldrich spent time on eight New Bedford whaling vessels between March and October of 1887, documenting the whaling industry and the native peoples of the Arctic.