The following visual bibliography is just a sampling of the handbooks and books which have been published for this park. NPSHistory.com does not endorse these, but are merely presenting them for informational purposes only. As most are copyrighted, we are only able to provide the covers, and not contents, of these publications.

New Bedford of the Past Daniel Ricketson 1903	cover only Sperm Whaling from New Bedford Elton W. Hall 1982	cover only The Voyage of the Schooner Polar Bear Bernhard Kilian 1983	cover only A Window Back: Photography in a Whaling Port Nicholas Whitman 1997
cover only Whaling Masters and Whaling Voyages Sailing from American Ports: A Compilation of Sources Judith Navas Lund 2001	cover only The Ports of Old Rochester: Shipbuilding at Mattapoisett and Marion Edward F. R. Wood, Jr. 2004	cover only Sea Stuck W. H. Bunting 2004	cover only Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet Everett Allen 2015
cover only Treasures of the Whaling Museum: Touchstones to the Region's Past James Russell 2015	cover only O'er the Wide and Tractless Sea: Original Art of the Yankee Whale Hunt Michael Dyer 2017