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DescriptionThomas Nickerson portrait.jpeg
English: Photographic portrait of Thomas Nickerson. Served as the cabin boy on the ship Essex, sunk by a whale, November 20, 1820, west of the Galapagos Islands, in the Pacific Ocean. Wrote account of sinking.
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