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Photo gallery

Freeze Frame showcases a selection of prints taken from the Museum’s world-class historic photographs collection. The exhibition looks at two expeditions to the Arctic under Captain Edward Inglefield in 1854, and Captain George Nares in 1875-76. Both expeditions used photographic processes that were in their infancy, having been announced to the public only a few years before.

Freeze Frame

View from the ice of 'Alert' (1856) ashore in Radmore Harbour, Rawlings Bay, at low tide.
A view of the crew of a dog sledge cutting a road in the ice below the cliffs of Cape Rawson
Newly formed floe-bergs, showing the old line of floatation
The Lady Franklin Sound Sledge Party prior to departure from Discovery.
View from Mount Cartinel looking southwest towards Bellot Island and and its summit Mount Campbell, Discovery Bay, Lady Franklin Sound (Bay).
Mr George White, Assistant Engineer of 'Alert' and the ship's photographer with 'Nelly', Commander Markham's black Retriever.
Hans Hendrik 'the Esquimaux' with his daughter/wife[?] and son on the upper deck of 'Discovery' (1873).
A starboard quarter view of 'Alert' (1856) alongside ice under Cape Prescott detained by the ice.
Fast to the floe under Cape Prescott, Franklin Pierce Bay
Starboard bow view of 'Alert' (1856), with Berrie, Ice Quartermaster, standing in the foreground behind a walrus which he killed.
A port stern quarter view of 'Alert' (1856) alongside the ice floe, with the crew cutting an ice dock in Dobbin Bay.
A group of 'native' inhabitants with some crew members of 'Discovery' (1873) posing off the port bow of 'Discovery'.
Christian Soren Marcus Olrik, Inspector of North Greenland
Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield
Two Inuit women with baby
Unidentified Inuit Man
Group portrait of Inuit boys
Jorgen Nielsen Moller
Portrait of a Danish misssionary and Danish Lieutenant
Group portrait of Inuit girls and women
Hans Elberg and family
HMS Phoenix (1832), HMS Talbot (1824) and HMS Diligence (1814) at anchor, Holsteinborg
The church and parsonage, Holsteinborg
Portrait of three Inuit
An Inuit group in Inuit and Eurpoean clothes.
Donald Manson, Ice Master of Phoenix (1832)
Unidentified Inuit man with a kayak
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