A three-masted square-rigged bark lies moored alongside a wooden wharf, with a U.S. flag flying at her mainmast truck. Small rowboats and a sloop sit in the foreground water, and figures stand on the pier. The printed caption calls her a whaling bark at her dock in New Bedford, Massachusetts, long the center of the American whaling industry. By 1906 the port's whaling fleet had dwindled, and vessels like this one had become reminders of the city's earlier maritime prominence.
Caption printed in the negative; handwritten note in pencil across the lower front; light edge wear and a few small spots.
Postmark: NEW BEDFORD AUG 1 5 PM 1906 MASS (with AMESBURY AUG 2 1906 receiving mark). Undivided back with "This side for the Address."; Rotograph Co. imprint printed in Germany; light edge wear and slight toning.
Cite this card
Whaling bark at her dock, New Bedford, MA, 1906, postcard, c. 1906. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/whaling-bark-at-her-dock-new-bedford-ma-1906. Accessed November 2, 2026.
