whale

13 photos and 56 illustrations tagged whale, from 13 members of Flickr Commons.

When were these photos & illustrations taken?

1882

2017

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Beached whale on the Belgian coast, c. 1940 from Liberas uploaded May 2023
023-Top Gun Image from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2022
Living exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, the capital city of the southern U.S. state of Georgia and the state's largest city (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded November 2022
Rabbits, Drawn from Life (prize specimens). Horses, Drawn from Life (prize specimens) from National Library of Medicine uploaded August 2022
Paddle of Whale Compared with Hand of Man. Wing of Reptile, Mammal, and Bird from National Library of Medicine uploaded August 2022
British Library digitised image from page 521 of "The Polar Regions of the Western Continent explored: embracing a geographical account of Iceland, Greenland, the islands of the frozen sea, and the northern parts of the American Continent ... Together wit from British Library uploaded February 2018
British Library digitised image from page 32 of "Youth's Manual of Geography, combined with History and Astronomy, etc" from British Library uploaded February 2018
The Whale Car Wash, N. 50th & Meridian, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (LOC) from The Library of Congress uploaded September 2017
British Library digitised image from page 251 of "Ships, Sailors, and the Sea, etc" from British Library uploaded September 2017
British Library digitised image from page 178 of "The Cruise of the 'Cachalot' ... Second edition" from British Library uploaded August 2017
British Library digitised image from page 180 of "Half-Hours with the Early Explorers, etc" from British Library uploaded August 2017
1991183_1309 from Texas State Archives uploaded June 2017
British Library digitised image from page 106 of "The Countries of the World: being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe [With plates.]" from British Library uploaded April 2017
British Library digitised image from page 52 of "Wild Adventures in Wild Places" from British Library uploaded March 2017
British Library digitised image from page 449 of "Collections on the History of Albany, from its discovery to the present time. With notices of its public institutions and biographical sketches of citizens deceased [The preface signed: J. M, i.e. Joel Mun from British Library uploaded February 2017

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Catch of the day

from The National Archives UK

Expensive Destruction said:
Look at the bloody baleen on that!
Dimitri Ponirakis said:
A Southern Right whale, right for all the wrong reasons. A bloody shame.

Living exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, the capital city of the southern U.S. state of Georgia and the state's largest city (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Luc Brocard said:
looks like a Rhincodon typus (whale shark). but the little fishes I don't know
Jon (LOC P&P) said:
The yellow fish in the foreground might be porkfish, but that's just a guess.

[Whaling scenes at Skaaro. The "Nancy Grey" with a whale, Norway] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

19 older comments, and then…
In Memoriam: budderflyman said:
Another wonderful color photo that is over 100 years old. Amazing.
Blackhorse17 said:
Wow, a wonderful blast to the past!
Syl_au said:
wowww, so all of these have been coloured in photoshop? it must of been a very painstaking job for someone. I wondered why all seemed taken at sunset, heh. I don't think its overdone.
Ἐπίκουρος said:
It is not altered in photoshop. It is a photochrom: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom
Horse N. Buggy said:
A great photo, but also very sad. But it also reminds me that I need to digitize the slides from my whale watching trip.