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Album of photographs and sketches relating to arctic voyages

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Catalog Data

Collector:
Cox, Robert S.  Search this
Extent:
7 Drawings (pencil on paper)
0.21 Linear feet (1 box)
113 Photographic prints (silver gelatin)
Culture:
Inuit (Canadian Eskimo)  Search this
Arctic peoples  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Drawings
Photographic prints
Photographs
Place:
Greenland
Baffin Island (Canada)
Pond Inlet (Inuit Community)
Date:
1908-1917
Scope and Contents:
Album of photographs and sketches relating to voyages, primarily in the arctic. Includes photographs from the steamer Neptune's 1917 rescue of Donald MacMillan and other members of the Crocker Land Relief Expedition, as well as the Northern Ventures Expedition, ca 1912. Photographs depict Inuit men, women, and children from Greenland and Baffin Island, sailors, sea ice, arctic and marine mammals, and walrus and narwhal ivory. Sketches are portraits, most likely of other sailors or expedition members.
Provenance:
The Album was donated by Benton and Elizabeth Cox Leach in 2015.
Topic:
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917)  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs -- 1900-1920
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.2016-09
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw34b519a8b-b005-49ca-a05a-a7bc9b41202f
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-2016-09