Captain George Comer of East Haddam

• Main Author: Bishop, Isaac C. (Creator)
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1925
• Subjects: Whaling masters; Whalers (Persons); Sealers (Persons); Comer; George; Arctic; Bedford; New Bedford
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:2560

Bust-length portrait of a man identified as Captain George Comer. He has a white mustache and wears a nautical cap with visor, patterned necktie, button-down shirt, jacket and vest. Lifestyle Livelihood Title supplied by cataloger. Captain George Comer (1858-1937) was a sealer and whaling captain from East Haddam. He went to sea while still in his teens and was later master of vessels from both New London and New Bedford, and participated in voyages involved in polar expeditions. Comer was noted for his studies of Arctic peoples and their environment. He and Julia Chipman married in 1878. Identified as taken by Isaac C. Bishop of New London, probably in the mid 1920's.