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pl23_expl3147.jpg

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H.M.S. CHALLENGER, leaving St. Paul's Rocks, Agst 29 1873 from theCHALLENGER SKETCHBOOK by B. Shepard. This work was discovered byJ. 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

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space