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Badge: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order, 2nd class
book
Box
Bradawl
Button
Cap band
Certificate Case
clothing, outerwear: shirt(fragment)
clothing accessory: band, cap
clothing accessory: button(four buttons)
clothing accessory: button(three buttons)
container: box
container: lid
Cook's Knife
Dessert fork
Dessert spoon
Disc
documentary artifact: case, certificate
documentary artifact: manual, student's(fragment-2 pages only)
food processing t&e: knife, cook's
food service t&e: fork, dessert
food service t&e: fork, table
food service t&e: spoon, dessert
food service t&e: spoon, table
food service t&e: spoon, tea
Fork
Gimlet
iceworking t&e: knife, snow
Knife
Knife blade
leatherworking t&e: ulu(blade only)
lighting device: box, match
Match box
optical t&e: cover, object glass
optical t&e: telescope(fragment)
Order
Pencil case
personal gear: blade, knife
personal gear: knife
personal symbol: crest
personal symbol: Royal Hanovarian Guelphic Order
personal symbol: seal, admiralty
Pocket chronometer
Pocket compass
presentation artifact: badge, Knight Commander
relic: disc(fragment)
Shirt
Snow knife
Spoon
Student's manual
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket
Tea spoon
Telescope
Telescope (part)
Telescope eyepiece
Telescope eyepiece cover
Telescope eyepiece end
Telescope lens
timekeeping t&e: case, watch(fragment)
timekeeping t&e: chain, watch
timekeeping t&e: chain, watch(fragment)
timekeeping t&e: wheel, watch
Ulu
Watch back
Watch barrel
Watch cap
Watch case
Watch chain
Watch dust cover
Watch plate
Watch relic
Watch wheel
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
woodworking t&e: bradawl
woodworking t&e: gimlet(common shell gimlet)
written communication t&e: case, pencil
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cotton
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metal: brass
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tin
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Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
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Adams, George
Barker, Thomas Jones
Davis, Benjamin
Dexter, Benjamin
Eaton, William
Ferris, George
Firmin & Sons Limited
Guest, Thomas & Joseph
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I.T.
IH
IV, John Harris
J., W.
John Millikin
Low, Josiah
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Marshall, William
Northcote, Thomas
Richard Timmins & Sons
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Wallis, Robert
West, M.
Wigfall & Co
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Young
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Arctic Exploration: Dr John Rae, 1853-1854
Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
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Erebus (1826)
Terror (1813)
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North-West Passage
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Alexander McDonald, Alexander
Barrow, John
Crozier, Francis Rawden Moira
Fairholme, James Walter
Fowler, William
Franklin, John
Goodsir, Harry D.S.
Gore, Graham
Greenwich Hospital
Hickey, Cornelius
Irving, John
Le Vesconte, Thomas Henry Dundas
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
Macbean, Gillies Alexander
Mark, William
Peddie, John Smart
Reed, William
Reid, James
Rhodes, William
Royal United Service Institution
Sargent, Robert Orme
Voeux, Charles Frederick Des
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