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Polar Equipment and Relics
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A Matter of Life and Death
Franklin relics
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armament t&e, ammunition: bag, shot
armament t&e, ammunition: ball, musket
armament t&e, ammunition: cartridge, wire(2 cartridges)
armament t&e, ammunition: shot
armament t&e, ammunition: tampion, gun
Arrow shaft
Axe
Axe handle
Bandage
Belaying pin
Block
Boat's thimble
Bolt
Bone comb
Boot
Bottle
Bottle Top
Box
Brass Plate
Brass pocket compass lid
Brass Strip
Buckle
Button
Can
Canned food
Canteen
Canvas
Chest Handle
China
Clay pipe
Clay pipe fragment
Clothes brush
clothing, footwear: boot(part)
clothing, footwear: boot, sea
clothing, footwear: boot, sea(part)
clothing, footwear: heel, shoe(part)
clothing, outerwear: overcoat(fragments) ?
clothing accessory: brush, clothes
clothing accessory: buckle(5 buckles)
clothing accessory: button
clothing accessory: button(2 buttons)
clothing accessory: button(4 buttons)
clothing accessory: button(5 buttons)
clothing accessory: button, royal naval
clothing accessory: button, royal naval(two buttons)
commemorative artifact: medal
Commemorative medal
Compass
Compass Corrector
Container
container: bottle(fragment)
container: box(fragment) ?
container: lid
Copper Plate
Copper plate
Copper Strip
Corrector magnet
Cotton Wool
Dip circle (part)
Dowel
Eyebolt shackle
Fabric strap
Fish hook
fishing & trapping t&e: hook, fish
food service t&e: canteen
food service t&e: canteen(parts)
food service t&e: china(fragment)
food service t&e: flask, tin
food service t&e: rations: can, food
food service t&e: rations: can, food(soup)
food service t&e: rations: can, potato(part)
food service t&e: rations: can, soup
food service t&e: rations: can ?
food service t&e: rations: canister, soup(3 canisters)
food service t&e: rations: keg, vinegar(in pieces)
food service t&e: top, bottle
Fragment
Glass bottle
Gun tampion
Gun tompion
Hip flask
household accessory: handle, chest
household accessory: scissors
Iron bar
Iron fitting
Iron plate
Keel
Knife handle
land transport accessory: harness, sledge
land transport accessory: runner, sledge(2 runners)
Lead pencil
Lead sheet
Leather
Leather strap
Lid
Lint
Manuscript
Marine chronometer
Mast
Material
Medal
medical & psychological t&e: tourniquet, surgeon's
multiple use artifact: rope
Musket ball
Nail
Navy sail canvas
Oar
optical t&e: draw tube, telescope(eyepiece draw tube)
optical t&e: eyepiece, telescope
Overcoat fragments
Pen knife
personal gear: axe(part)
personal gear: bag, seaman's(fragment) ?
personal gear: flask, hip
personal gear: handle, axe
personal gear: knife, pen
personal gear: shovel(part)
personal gear: smoking gear: pipe, clay(13 fragments of at least 3 pipes)
personal symbol: broad arrow
personal symbol: coat of arms, royal
Plaster
Probang
Record tin
relic: bar, iron
relic: bolt
relic: bolt ?
relic: canvas
relic: fitting, iron
relic: material
relic: nail(part)
relic: plate, brass
relic: plate, copper
relic: plate, copper(circular)
relic: plate, iron
relic: sheet, lead
relic: strip, copper
relic: timber
Rope
Rope grommet
Royal Naval button
Sail
Sail canvas
Scissors
Sea boot
Seaman's bag
Serynge
Shoe heel
Shot
Shot bag
Shovel
Sledge harness
Sledge runner
Soup can
Soup canister
Spectacles case
Stave
Stove
Strap
Surgeon's tourniquet
surveying & navigational t&e: compass(part)
surveying & navigational t&e: magnet, corrector ?
Syringe
Telescope draw tube
Telescope eyepiece
telescope tube
Test tube
Timber
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(8 day)
Tin
Tin box
Tinder box damper
Tin flask
toilet article: comb, bone
Tourniquet
Vinegar keg
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport: steam vessel: screw vessel, single
water transport accessory: block
water transport accessory: block(fragment)
water transport accessory: canvas, navy sail(fragment)
water transport accessory: eyebolt, shackle ?
water transport accessory: grommet, rope
water transport accessory: hoop, mast(fragment)
water transport accessory: hoop, yard
water transport accessory: keel
water transport accessory: oar(2 fragments of one blade)
water transport accessory: pin, belaying
water transport accessory: sail(fragment)
water transport accessory: thimble, boat's
water transport accessory: toggle, wooden
Wire cartridge
Wooden toggle
woodworking t&e: dowel
woodworking t&e: dowel ?
Writing pen
Yard hoop
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antler
bone
brass
brass?
bristle
British conifer (pine)
British oak
camphor
canvas
china
clay
cloth
cloves oil
copper
cotton
crocus seed wine
fabric
gilt
gilt metal
glass
hemp
horn
inorganic: clay
iron
ivory
lead
leather
leather (cattle)
linen
Magnesium Carbonate
mahogany
metal
metal: brass
metal: copper
metal: iron
metal: steel
metal: tin
oak
olive oil
paper
perchloride of mercury
pulvered ginger root
Pulvered Jalap root (Mexican morning glory)
Pulvered root of Convolvulus Scammonia
pulvered root of Ipecacuanha
rope
shell
silvered brass
steel
strong ammonia solution
tin
tincture of opiated camphor
tincture of pulvered ipecac
tolu tincture
velvet
wood
wool
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Arnold, John Roger
Boggett & Reynolds
D. & H. Edwards & Co.
Goldner, Stephen
J. Bagnall & Sons
John Millikin
Pascall, Thomas
Powell & Co
Robinson
Robinson, Thomas Charles
Shaw & Marshall
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Canada
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Arctic Exploration: Franklin's Last Expedition, 1845-1848
Arctic Exploration: Franklin Search Expedition, Schwatka, 1878-1880
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Beagle (1820)
Erebus (1826)
Fox (1855)
Great Britain (1843)
Terror (1813)
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Arnold, John Roger
Ebierbing, Joseph
Franklin, John
Hobson, William Robert
Irving, John
Klutschak, Henry
McClintock, Francis Leopold
Netchillik, Ookwolik
Prince Albert, Consort of Queen Victoria
Royal United Service Institution
Wilks, Henry
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Cylindrical case for wire snow goggles (Spectacles case)
Part of ship's boat keel with piece of stempost and keelson attached (Keel)
Chest Handle
Glass bottle
Glass bottle
Glass bottle
Glass bottle
A fragment of clay pipe bowl (Clay pipe fragment)
A fragment of clay pipe stem (Clay pipe fragment)
A fragment of clay pipe bowl (Clay pipe fragment)
A fragment of clay pipe stem (Clay pipe fragment)
Three cut-down Goldner Patent tins (Soup canister)
Cut-down modified Golder Patent tin (Soup canister)
Cut-down modified Goldner Patent tin (Soup canister)
Wooden staves from an oak vinegar keg (Vinegar keg)
Goldner's Patent Preserved Meat tin (Tin)
The brass back of a hand saw. (Brass Strip)
The top of a preserved potato tin (Tin)
Tin
Compass
A Petit's-type wooden tourniquet screw clamp (Tourniquet)
Compass
Compass
294 (Marine chronometer)
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