Dad’s Photos #7

Here’s the next installment of photographs from my father’s old photo album. For those of you who’ve missed the earlier installments, these photos were taken in the late 1930s & early 1940s both in Massachusetts & Vermont. You can find links to the earlier posts in the series under the * Special Guests * section, about halfway down the page (right about the Blog Archive).

Today’s photos are from a trip my father took to New Bedford, MA & Fairhaven, MA while he was living & working in Bourne; I believe these were taken in 1938. As some of you will no doubt know, New Bedford was famous as a whaling center. Fairhaven also was a whaling port, tho less prominent than New Bedford; but Herman Melville sailed out of Fairhaven on a whaling ship in 1841.

Hope you enjoy the pix. As usual, the captions are my father’s, taken from the album.


Church at Fairhaven Mass

Fish Pier at New Bedford Mass

Leaving New Bedford – A Fishing Boat

Dedicated to the Whale Boats of New Bedford

Bay at Fairhaven


Look up boy look up


Church at Fairhaven Mass