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A view of the upper deck of 'Alert' (1856) looking aft from behind the main mast
A view of the upper deck of 'Alert' (1856) looking aft from behind the main mast.
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Alexandra Bay [Princess Alexandra Harbour], Ellesmere Island
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Radmore Harbour, Rawlings Bay, Ellesmere Island
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Port broadside view of 'Discovery' (1873) at Port Payer, Ellesmere Island, with Brevoort Island in the background. (Photographic print)
A view of the ice taken from 'Alert' (1856), when beset in the ice off Cape Beechey. (Photographic print)
Seven unidentified Inuit women of Disco outside a hut close to the settlement at Godhaven. (Photographic print)
A view of four men with the tent erected. In the foreground is the dog sledge with the dogs laying on the ice. (Photographic print)
A view taken at the southern cape of Wrangle Bay of three men having halted for luncheon on the way from 'Discovery' (1873) to 'Alert' (1856) (Photographic print)
'Alert' (1856) with the crew working to free the ship from the barrier of 'floe-bergs'. (Photographic print)
Captain Stephenson with two sailors and the dog sledge on route to 'Alert' (1856) from Discovery Bay (Photographic print)
The Battle of the Saints, 12 April 1782 (Painting)
A group of Inuit with some crew members posing off the port bow of 'Discovery'. (Photographic print)
Fast to the floe under Cape Prescott, Franklin Pierce Bay (Photographic print)
Hans Hendrik 'the Esquimaux' with his daughter/wife[?] and son on the upper deck of 'Discovery' (1873). (Photographic print)
A starboard quarter view of 'Alert' (1856) alongside ice under Cape Prescott detained by the ice. (Photographic print)
Mr George White, Assistant Engineer of 'Alert' and the ship's photographer with 'Nelly', Commander Markham's black Retriever. (Photographic print)
The Lady Franklin Sound Sledge Party prior to departure from Discovery. (Photographic print)
Forcing a passage up the Hudson River, 9 October 1776 (Painting)
Nares' British Arctic Expedition, 1875-76 (Photograph Album)
To the Right Honorable Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley this map of the colony of New South Wales...'To Capt. Stokes RN from the compiler' written in ink to the right side of title. (Chart)
To the Right Honorable Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley this map of the colony of New South Wales...'To Capt. Stokes RN from the compiler' written in ink to the right side of title. (Chart)
The crew of 'Alert' (1856) cutting an ice dock in Dobbin Bay near Cape Hilgard. (Sheet film negative)
The shipkeepers of 'Discovery' (1873) sitting on a dog sledge with the remaining dogs. (Sheet film negative)
'Alert' (1856) in Winter Quarters at 'Floe-berg Beach', on the north coast of Ellesmere Island. (Photographic print)
A view from near one of the ships towards Cape Louis Napoleon on the northeast coast of Dobbin Bay. (Photographic print)
A view of the head of a Musk Oxen (Photographic print)
A starboard near bow view of 'Discovery' (1873) attached to the ice off Cape York. (Photographic print)
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