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pl23_expl3140.jpg

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H.M.S. CHALLENGER Leaving Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 19, 1873. H.M.S. ALFRED,Cheering, Us Out from the CHALLENGER SKETCHBOOK by B. Shepard. This work wasdiscovered by J. Welles Henderson, a benefactor of the Philadelphia MaritimeMuseum. Accompanying text by Harris B. Stewart, then head of NOAA'sAtlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories.

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Philadelphia Maritime Museum

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Voyage to Inner Space