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ceremonial artifact: flag, sledge
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Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin's final voyage
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Division of sledges finding and cutting a road through heavy hummocks, in the Queen's Channel (Print)
HMS Assistance in tow of Pioneer passing John Barrow Mount, North of Wellington Channel 1853 (Print)
Division of sledges passing Cape Lady Franklin; extraordinary masses of ice pressed against the north shore of Bathurst Land (Print)
Belcher's Franklin Expedition 1852/4. Division of sledges passing Cape Lady Franklin. Extraordinary masses of ice pressed against the water shore of Bathurst Island. Drawing for plate 10 of set of 14 lithographs published 1 May 1855 (Drawing)
First Arctic Medal (Polar medal)
HMS Assistance and Pioneer breaking out of Winter Quarters (Print)
Encamping for the night (Print)
This Print Representing the Situation of Her Majesty's ships Resolute & Intrepid as they appeared in the Arctic Sea (where they had been sent in search of Sir John Franklin and his brave companions)... (Print)
This Print Representing the Situation of Her Majesty's ships Resolute & Intrepid as they appeared in the Arctic Sea (where they had been sent in search of Sir John Franklin and his brave companions)... (Print)
Belcher's Franklin Expedition 1852/4. Encamping for the night. Drawing for plate 12 of a set of 14 lithographs published 1 May 1855 (Drawing)
Belcher's Franklin Expedition 1852/4. Sledges in a fresh fair wind over hummocky lie. Drawing for plate 11 of a set of 14 lithographs published 1 May 1855 (Drawing)
An incident in the search for Sir John Franklin. The relief expedition consisting... Phoenix, Talbot & Diligence passing a remarkable Ice Berg in Davis' Straits while proceeding... for relieving Sir Edward Belcher's Expedition in the Arctic Seas on the 4 day of June 1854 (Drawing)
Portrait of a Danish missionary and Danish Lieutenant (Glass plate negative)
Group portrait of Inuit boys (Glass plate negative)
The church and parsonage, Holsteinborg (Glass plate negative)
Unidentified Inuit Man (Glass plate negative)
Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield (Glass plate negative)
Sledge flag (Sledge flag)
Copper Sheathing
Despatch balloon messages
Despatch balloon messages
Playbill produced on board HMS 'Intrepid' during the Franklin Search Expedition (Playbill)
Despatch balloon message (Despatch balloon message)
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