AF-1096: Early Whaling Days | Nantucket, Massachusetts | Postcards from the Past

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I pulled this card from the stack and instantly felt the spray of seawater and the tension of a harpoon rope straining against the power of something far too large to control.

This is no tourist snapshot. It’s a painting—an artist’s concept of a whaling scene, likely imagined from stories passed down, museum displays, or old journal entries. The men are mid-chase in a longboat, bearing down on the massive, thrashing tail of a whale. Behind them, the tall masts of their ship rise from the sea like a cathedral of sails. There’s no engine noise, no modern equipment. Just raw wood, rope, and determination.

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