This postcard features the 100 ton Port Angeles whale exhibited at Luna Park and is dated December 30, 1907 in the image caption.
Public exhibition of large whales became part spectacle and part maritime record in the early twentieth century, especially in Pacific Northwest port communities. Port Angeles was closely tied to regional fishing, shipping, and coastal industry, and extraordinary catches were widely publicized. Postcards documenting such displays circulated as both souvenir and visual testimony to scale.
The image shows the immense ribbed body of the whale partially submerged near shore, its size emphasized by several men standing atop and beside it. The surface of the carcass displays pronounced horizontal striations along the flank, and shoreline pilings and trees frame the background. The bold caption across the lower portion reads A Monstrous 100 Ton Port Angeles Whale on Exhibition at Luna Park Dec 30th 1907, while the reverse carries a standard one-cent domestic two-cent foreign stamp box.
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