Acknowledgments and Site Information
Skip Finley provided overall guidance in research and development as well as writing the biography of William A. Martin included here. He also generously allowed use of data and tables from his book, Whaling Captains of Color: America's First Meritocracy, which was an essential guide during the development of the site.
Darrel Morris allowed the use of his portrait of William Martin on the site.
Elizabeth Whelan allowed the use of her portraits of Amos Jeffers, Jr. and Joseph T. Belain on the site.
Stephen Luce, Timothy Walker, Caroline Ummenhofer and the team of researchers for the "Digitizing and Mining Weather Data From Whaling Ship Logbooks" project transcribed the logbook of the 1887 voyage, providing latitude and longitude coordinates for the voyage.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum generously allowed the use of photographs of the Eunice H. Adams from their collection.
Abigail Dolan is our first Digital Humanities Fellow, working to provide additional new ways of visualizing the collection materials.
Laura Motley scanned and produced metadata for the manuscripts appearing across the site. Brandon Roman provided additional metadata creation.
The Papitto Opportunity Connection provided funding for programming and work by the Digital Humanities Fellow.