Reading & Research Recommendations
Scrimshaw Books
Ball, Robert W. D. Nautical Antiques. Pennsylvania: Shiffer Publishing Co., 1994.
Bowen, Martha. Scrimshaw: Variations on a Theme. San Francisco: Martha Bowen, 1998.
Flayderman, E. Norman. Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whaleman. New Milford, Conn.: N. Flayderman & Co., 1972.
Frank, Stuart M. Dictionary of Scrimshaw Artists. Mystic Conn.: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1991.
Frank, Stuart M. Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Boston: David R. Godine, 2012.
Frank, Stuart M. More Scrimshaw Artists. Mystic Conn.: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1998.
Frank, Stuart M. Scrimshaw and Provenance. Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2013.
Hellman, Nina, and Norman Brouwer. A Mariner's Fancy: The Whaleman's Art of Scrimshaw. New York: South Street Seaport
and Balsam Press, 1992.
Lawrence, Martha. Scrimshaw: The Whaler's Legacy. Pennsylvania: Shiffer Publishing Co., 1993.
Malley, Richard C. 'Graven by the fishermen themselves': Scrimshaw in Mystic Seaport Museum. Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1983.
Malley, Richard C. 'In their hours of ocean leisure': Scrimshaw in the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.:
Whaling Museum Society, 1993.
Martin, Kenneth R. 'Some Very Handsome Work': Scrimshaw at the Cape Cod National Seashore. Eastham, Mass.: Eastham National Park and
Monument Association, 1991.
McManus, Michael. A Treasury of American Scrimshaw: A Collection of the Useful and Decorative. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
Meyer, Charles R. Whaling and the Art of Scrimshaw. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1976.
West, Janet, and Arthur G. Credland. Scrimshaw: The Art of the Whalers. Hull (UK): Hull City Museums; Beverley, East Yorks (UK): Hutton Press, 1995.
Bowen, Martha. Scrimshaw: Variations on a Theme. San Francisco: Martha Bowen, 1998.
Flayderman, E. Norman. Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders, Whales and Whaleman. New Milford, Conn.: N. Flayderman & Co., 1972.
Frank, Stuart M. Dictionary of Scrimshaw Artists. Mystic Conn.: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1991.
Frank, Stuart M. Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Boston: David R. Godine, 2012.
Frank, Stuart M. More Scrimshaw Artists. Mystic Conn.: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1998.
Frank, Stuart M. Scrimshaw and Provenance. Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport Museum, 2013.
Hellman, Nina, and Norman Brouwer. A Mariner's Fancy: The Whaleman's Art of Scrimshaw. New York: South Street Seaport
and Balsam Press, 1992.
Lawrence, Martha. Scrimshaw: The Whaler's Legacy. Pennsylvania: Shiffer Publishing Co., 1993.
Malley, Richard C. 'Graven by the fishermen themselves': Scrimshaw in Mystic Seaport Museum. Mystic, Conn.: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1983.
Malley, Richard C. 'In their hours of ocean leisure': Scrimshaw in the Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.:
Whaling Museum Society, 1993.
Martin, Kenneth R. 'Some Very Handsome Work': Scrimshaw at the Cape Cod National Seashore. Eastham, Mass.: Eastham National Park and
Monument Association, 1991.
McManus, Michael. A Treasury of American Scrimshaw: A Collection of the Useful and Decorative. New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
Meyer, Charles R. Whaling and the Art of Scrimshaw. New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1976.
West, Janet, and Arthur G. Credland. Scrimshaw: The Art of the Whalers. Hull (UK): Hull City Museums; Beverley, East Yorks (UK): Hutton Press, 1995.
Research and Documentation: Whaling Ships, voyages & Personnel
Dyer, Michael P. O'er the Wide and Tractless Sea: Original Art of the Yankee Whale Hunt. New Bedford: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2017.
Hegarty, Reginald B. Addendum to "Starbuck" and Whaling Masters. New Bedford Customs District. New Bedford, Mass.:
New Bedford Free Public Library, 1964.
Hegarty, Reginald B. Returns of Whaling Vessels Sailing from American Ports: A Continuation of Alexander Starbuck's "History of
the American Whale Fishery," 1876-1928. With additions by Philip F. Purrington. New Bedford, Mass.: Old Dartmouth Historical
Society and Whaling Museum, 1959.
Lund, Judith, N., Elizabeth A. Josephson, Randall R. Reeves, and Tim D. Smith. American Offshore Whaling Voyages 1667-1927.
2 vols. New Bedford: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2010.
Starbuck, Alexander. History of the American Whale Fishery, from Its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876. (Report of the U. S.
Commission on Fish and Fisheries, Part IV. Washington, 1878.) Repr., 2 vols., with a new preface by Stuart C. Sherman.
New York: Argosy Antiquarian, 1964.
Hegarty, Reginald B. Addendum to "Starbuck" and Whaling Masters. New Bedford Customs District. New Bedford, Mass.:
New Bedford Free Public Library, 1964.
Hegarty, Reginald B. Returns of Whaling Vessels Sailing from American Ports: A Continuation of Alexander Starbuck's "History of
the American Whale Fishery," 1876-1928. With additions by Philip F. Purrington. New Bedford, Mass.: Old Dartmouth Historical
Society and Whaling Museum, 1959.
Lund, Judith, N., Elizabeth A. Josephson, Randall R. Reeves, and Tim D. Smith. American Offshore Whaling Voyages 1667-1927.
2 vols. New Bedford: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2010.
Starbuck, Alexander. History of the American Whale Fishery, from Its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876. (Report of the U. S.
Commission on Fish and Fisheries, Part IV. Washington, 1878.) Repr., 2 vols., with a new preface by Stuart C. Sherman.
New York: Argosy Antiquarian, 1964.
Whaling Industry & Narratives
Ashley, Clifford W. The Yankee Whaler. Boston: Houghton Mifflin; and London: Martin Hopkinson & Co., 1926 (2nd ed. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1938; London: George Routledge & Sons, 1938; repr. Garden City, N.Y.: Halcyon, 1942).
Bockstoce, John. Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986.
Browne, J. Ross. Etchings of a Whaling Cruise. New York: Harper & Bros., 1846 (Reprinted with an introduction by John Seelye,
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1968).
Church, Albert Cook. Whale Ships and Whaling. New York: Bonanza Books, 1987.
Davis, William M. Nimrod of the Sea: or. The American Whaleman. New York: Harper & Bros., 1874 (Reprinted North Quincy, Mass.:
Christopher Publishing House, 1972).
Dolin, Eric J. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.
Ellis, Richard. Men and Whales. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
Hohman, Elmo P. The American Whaleman: A Study of Life and Labor in the Whaling Industry. New York, London, and Toronto:
Longmans, Green & Co., 1928.
Leavitt, John F. The Charles W. Morgan. Mystic: Mystic Seaport, 1972.
Martin, Kenneth R., Ed. Around the World in Search of Whales: A Journal of the Lucy Ann Voyage 1841-1844 by John F. Martin.
New Bedford: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2016.
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale. Great Britain, Oct. 18, 1851; United States, Nov. 14, 1851.
Murphy, Robert Cushman. A Dead Whale or a Stove Boat: Cruise of Daisy in the Atlantic Ocean, June 1912 - May 1913. Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin, 1967.
Murphy, Robert Cushman. Logbook for Grace: Brig Daisy, 1912-1913. New York: Macmillan, 1947.