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Welcome to the Independence Seaport Museum, where visitors can discover Philadelphia’s river of history and world of connections.

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Welcome to 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐲 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬! 🦇 Throughout the month of October, we are going to be highlighting some of the more creepy, scary, and otherworldly stories that live within ISM’s collections!

Today’s highlight is 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵! 🦴

Scrimshaw was a very popular form of sailor handcrafts and involved carving pieces of whalebone and tusk. There are countless applications of the art form, including corset stays, pie crimpers, hair combs, and more! This is just a small selection of the scrimshaws within ISM’s collections.

(Pictured here is a cane, a seam rubber, and a pie crimper!)

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This week’s #SuperstitionSaturday topic is 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨!

Found yourself with a catchy tune stuck in your head? Well, if you’re on a boat, make sure you hum or sing it instead. Whistling is commonly believed to be back luck out on the water, many sailors saying that it could “whistle up” the wind and thus spur on a storm.

(The passage pictured above comes from Legends and Superstitions of the Sea (1885) by Fletcher S. Bassett).

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