| Summary: | Full-length view of a man identified as Horace Newbury. He stands with his right shoulder turned toward the camera. He has a beard and wears "civilian" clothes, including a coat, vest, shirt and tie. Lifestyle Livelihood Title supplied by cataloger. Probably Captain Horace M. Newbury of Groton, whaling master. His ship, the Paiea, was one of thirty vessels destroyed by Bering Strait ice in a famous whaling disaster, 1871. In later years he was known in Groton as an amateur doctor. Paiea was owned by Williams & Haven of New London. Good condition, some foxing.
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