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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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A view from the shore looking to the southwest at Port Payer, Ellesmere Island, with a portion of the ice-foot on the right. (Photographic print)
Starboard broadside views of 'Discovery' (1873) and 'Alert' (1856) secured to a floe off Cape Prescott. (Photographic print)
A view of a crew member of 'Alert' in front of the grounded sea ice on the north coast of Ellesmere Island. (Photographic print)
A view of the grounded sea ice ('floebergs') forced up onto the shore by the pressure of the ice moving from the north. (Photographic print)
A view of the settlement of Proven situated on the western side of the easternmost island that made up the harbour. (Photographic print)
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)
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)
A view along Westward Ho! Valley on the north coast of Ellesmere Island[?], with a dog-sledge and dogs in the foreground. (Photographic print)
A view along Westward Ho! Valley from the top of a rocky promontory, looking westward towards the United States Range. (Photographic print)
Seven unidentified Inuit women of Disco outside a hut close to the settlement at Godhaven. (Photographic print)
The headstone for Neils Christian Petersen, Danish Interpreter of HMS 'Alert'. (Photographic print)
Fast to the floe under Cape Prescott, Franklin Pierce Bay (Photographic print)
A view of the crew of a dog sledge cutting a road in the ice below the cliffs of Cape Rawson (Photographic print)
Mr George White, Assistant Engineer of 'Alert' and the ship's photographer with 'Nelly', Commander Markham's black Retriever. (Photographic print)
Newly formed floe-bergs, showing the old line of floatation (Photographic print)
A starboard quarter view of 'Alert' (1856) alongside ice under Cape Prescott detained by the ice. (Photographic print)
The Honble John Baker Esqr Vice Admiral of the White, Obt 10 Novr 1716 (Print)
The Honble John Baker Esqr. Vice Admiral of the White. Obt. 10 Novr. 1716 (Print)
Edmundus Halley, Soc. Reg. Soc. Astronamus Regius et Geometriae Professor Savilianus (Print)
Nicholas Sanderson, 1682-1739 (Mathematician) (Print)
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