File:Black Fish driven ashore at South Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Mass., about 1500 in the school, sold for fifteen thousand dollars, which was divided among 300 inhabitants (68237).jpg

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English: Title: Black Fish driven ashore at South Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Mass., about 1500 in the school, sold for fifteen thousand dollars, which was divided among 300 inhabitants.
"The blackfish-a species of whale-often visits Wellfleet bay, Rev. Levi Whitman has left the record that in 1793 he saw four hun­dred of these fish lying upon the shore of the bay at one time, and the full-grown ones would weigh five tons. A barrel of oil could be averaged from every fish. We have no further record of these schools of fish until within the memory of the present residents; but they often appear in large numbers, the last being in 1885. That year a school of 1,500-old and young-entered Wellfleet bay and were driven into Blackfish creek, where they were killed. Hundreds of men in boats surrounded the school, and frightened them into the narrow and shallow waters of the creek, where they were left on the beach by the receding tide. They were sold for fourteen thousand dollars and the money was divided among those who assisted in the capture and killing."[1]
Subjects: Fish
Places: Massachusetts > Barnstable (county) > South Wellfleet
Notes: Title from item.
Extent: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Accession #: 06_10_000309
Date between circa 1930 and circa 1945
date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1945-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source Boston Public Library Tichnor Brothers collection #68237
Author Pub. by The Mayflower Sales Co., Provincetown, Mass. Tichnor Bros. Inc., Boston, Mass.

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