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Anchor, Ice
Apparatus, Cooking
armament t&e, ammunition: canister, explosives
armament t&e, ammunition: cover, gun(gun or sword cover) ?
armament t&e, ammunition: flask, powder
armament t&e, firearm: spring, gun
Axe, Ice
Bag
Balaclava
Balance
belt, sword
Blanket Square
Boot
Boot, pair
Boots
bottle, water
Bowl
building: lighthouse
building: tent
building: tent, ridge
building: tent, ridge(8 man sledge tent)
building component: pole, tent(4)
building component: pole, tent(5 poles)
Can
Canvas cover
Case, Document
ceremonial artifact: flag, national
ceremonial artifact: flag, sledge
clothing, footwear: boot(pair)
clothing, footwear: shoe(pair)
clothing, footwear: shoe, over
clothing, footwear: shoe, over(pair)
clothing, footwear: shoe, snow
clothing, footwear: slipper(pair)
clothing, headwear: balaclava
clothing, headwear: hat
clothing, headwear: helmet
clothing, headwear: uniform: hat, sennit
clothing, outerwear: gauntlet(pair)
clothing, outerwear: mitten
clothing, outerwear: mitten(pair)
clothing, outerwear: mitten, over(pair)
clothing, outerwear: overalls(3 items)
clothing, outerwear: suit, duffle
clothing, outerwear: suit, over(coat & trousers)
clothing, outerwear: suit, sealskin(5 pieces)
clothing, outerwear: top, overall
clothing, outerwear: trousers
clothing, outerwear: trousers, overall(snow repellers)
clothing accessory: belt
clothing accessory: gaiter(pair)
container: bag
container: can
Cooking apparatus
Cooking Apparatus
Cover, Sledge
Crow's Nest
Crow's nest weights
Cup
Dish
Dividers
documentary artifact: case, document
documentary artifact: map(3 maps)
documentary artifact: model, stalking sledge
documentary artifact: tent, model
Document case
drafting t&e: dividers
drafting t&e: set, drawing instrument
drafting t&e: station pointer
Drag, ice
Drawing
Drawing Instrument set
Drinking flask
Duffle suit
electrical & magnetic t&e: magnetometer
Equipment
Explosives canister
Face mask
Flask, Drinking
Flask, Powder
food processing t&e: apparatus, cooking
food processing t&e: apparatus, cooking(part: insulating cover)
food processing t&e: cooking apparatus
food processing t&e: kettle
food processing t&e: pan, metal
food processing t&e: pan, stew
food service t&e: flask, drinking(one of a pair)
food service t&e: ladle
food service t&e: mug
food service t&e: plate, dinner
food service t&e: rations: canister, rum ?
food service t&e: saucer
food service t&e: spoon
food service t&e: tureen
Gaiter
Gaiter, pair
Gaiters
Gauntlet
Glass
Glass, Medicine
Grain, Wheat
Gun cover
Gun mainspring
Harness, sledge
Harness bag, sledge harness, and coil of rope
Hat
Helmet
Hide, ox
Holder, Signal light
Ice anchor
Ice axe
Ice chisel
Ice crusher
Ice drag
Ice saw
Ice tool
iceworking t&e: axe, ice
iceworking t&e: chisel, ice
iceworking t&e: crusher, ice
iceworking t&e: knife, snow
iceworking t&e: saw, ice
iceworking t&e: saw, ice(part)
iceworking t&e: saw, ice(part: handle)
iceworking t&e: saw, ice(with tripod)
iceworking t&e: saw, snow
iceworking t&e: tool, ice
Insulating jacket for cooking apparatus
Kettle
Knapsack
Knife
Knife, Clasp
Knife, Sheath
Ladle
land transport: sledge
land transport: sledge(5 man sledge)
land transport: sledge(8 man sledge)
land transport: sledge (HM)
land transport accessory: bag, harness
land transport accessory: cover, sledge
land transport accessory: cover, sledge(for 8 man sledge)
land transport accessory: fitting, sail
land transport accessory: harness, sledge(for a man)
land transport component: cross piece, sledge(six sledge cross pieces)
land transport component: plank, sledge
land transport component: runner, sledge(2 runners from 10 man sledge)
Magnetometer
Map
medal, British: campaign medal: South Africa medal, 1877-1879
medical & psychological t&e: glass, medicine(fragment)
Mitten
Mitten, over
Mitten, pair
Mittens
Model tent
Mug
National flag
optical t&e: support, telescope(for crow's nest)
Overall
Overall top
Overall topo
Overall trousers
Over shoe
Over shoe, pair
Over shoes
Overshoes
Over trousers
Pair of boots
Pair of gaiters
Pair of overshoes
Pair of shoes
Pan
Pan, Metal
Pelt
Pemmican Chopper
personal gear: axe, ice
personal gear: axe, pick
personal gear: drag, ice(ice claw)
personal gear: flask, spirit
personal gear: goggles, snow
personal gear: knapsack
personal gear: knife, sheath
personal gear: mask, face
personal gear: shovel, ice
personal gear: square, blanket(1 of 5)
personal symbol: badge
personal symbol: flag: ensign, red
Photograph Album
Photographic Copy Negative
Photographic Print
Photographic print
Pick axe
Plank, Sledge
Plate
Pocket compass
Polar medal
Pole, Tent
Powder flask
Print
Pulley
relic, animal: zoological specimen: hare, stuffed arctic
relic, animal: zoological specimen: hide, ox
relic, animal: zoological specimen: musk ox head, stuffed(mounted on board)
relic, animal: zoological specimen: pelt(1 of 6)
relic: botanical specimen: grain, wheat(4 grains)
relic: cover, canvas
relic: wedge
Ridge tent
Roll film negative
Rowlock
Rum canister
Sail fitting
Saucer
Sealskin suit
Sennit hat
Set, Drawing Instrument
Sheet film negative
Shoe, over
Shoe, over, pair
Shoes
Shovel, Ice
Signal light holder
Sledge
Sledge cover
Sledge cross piece
Sledge cross pieces
Sledge flag
Sledge plank
Sledge runners
Slipper
Slipper, pair
Slippers
Snow goggles
Snow knife
Snow saw
Snow shoe
Spoon
Spring, Gun
Stalking sledge
Stalking sledge model
Station pointer
Stew pan
Stuffed arctic hare
Stuffed musk ox head
Suit, Over
Suit, Sealskin
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket
surveying & navigational t&e: tables, navigation(part)
Sword belt
Tables, Navigation
Telescope support
Tent, Ridge
Tent pole
Tent poles
Tool, Ice
Trousers
Trousers, over
Trousers, Overall
Tureen
visual communication t&e: holder, signal light
Water bottle
water transport: exploration/research vessel (HMS)
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport: service vessel: storeship
water transport accessory: anchor, ice
water transport accessory: crow's nest(& section of mast & ladder)
water transport accessory: rowlock
water transport accessory: weights, crow's nest(2 weights)
Wedge
weights & measures t&e: balance(part: beam)
Weights, Crow's Nest
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brass
Cellulose acetate negative
chromolithograph, coloured
coating: gilt
coating: lacquer ?
copper
earthenware
elastic
embroidered
glass
hand
hand sewn
inorganic: glass
iron
leather label from original box
linen
lithograph, coloured
lithograph, tinted
metal
metal, copper
metal: brass
metal: copper
metal: iron
metal: lead
metal: steel
metal: tin
metal: tin ?
organic: canvas
organic: cotton
organic: grain, wheat
organic: hessian
organic: horn
organic: leather
organic: leather, chamois
organic: paper
organic: sealskin
organic: skin
organic: tortoiseshell
organic: webbing
organic: wool
paper
porcelain
purpose-made box
silk
silver
steel
straw
synthetic: elastic
synthetic: glass
textile
tin, ?
watercolour
wood
wood: oak
wool
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Adams, George Gammon
Beechey, Richard Brydges
Burton, H
Cary
Erskine
G. & J. Hawksley
Hawksley, C & J W
Hudson & Son
Jack, Thomas C.
McClintock, Annette Elizabeth
McFarlane & Erskine
Mitchell, Thomas
Moss, Edward Lawton
Potter, John Dennett
S .W. Silver & Co
Starkey, J S, & Co
Tench, Matthew Parker
Unknown
W. T. Copeland & Sons Ltd
Ward, Marcus, & Co
White, George
Wyon, Leonard Charles
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Baffin Bay
Ellesmere Island
England
Greenland
Greenwich
London
Portsmouth Dockyard
Stoke-on-Trent
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Arctic Exploration: Greely Expedition, 1881
Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876
Arctic Exploration: USS Polaris, 1871-1873
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Sir Edward Parry fl.1875 (HM Sledge)
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Beaumont, Lewis Anthony
Dawes, Peter R.
Eddy, Edward Carlyn
Erskine
Hall, C Ffl
Hand, James
Harley, Daniel William, Daniel William
Hooker, Joseph Dalton
Markham, Albert Hastings
McClintock, Annette Elizabeth
McFarlane & Erskine
Montijo, Eugénie de
Nares, George Strong
Parr, Alfred Arthur Chase
Peterson, N. C.
Porter, [?]
Port of London Authority
Rawson, Wyatt
Royal Navy
Smithsonian Institution
Thames Conservancy
W. T. Copeland & Sons Ltd
Wooley, W P
Woolley, W P, W P
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Snow knife used on Nares' Arctic expedition, 1875-1876 (Snow knife)
Saucer
Saucer
Plate
Mitten
Polar sketches. On the Northern March, April 8, 1876 (Print)
The Alert pressed on shore in Kennedy Channel (Print)
Capn. G S Nares RN (Print)
Polar sketches. Returning to the ship after an unsuccessful attempt to find the North Pole (Print)
Polar Sketches. Godhavn Harbour, Disco Island, July 10, 1875 (Print)
Polar sketches. Returning to the ship after an unsuccessful attempt to find the North Pole (Print)
Polar sketches. Floeberg Beach and the Polar Sea, looking north from the crest of Cape Rawson, July 1876 (Print)
Polar sketches. Winter Quarters inside HMS Alert - the Wardroom (Print)
Polar Sketches. Winter Quarters Outside, from the floes astern of H.M.S. Alert, December, 1875 (Print)
Polar sketches. The Alert in Winter Quarters, firm amongst the Barrier Bergs, March 1876 (Print)
Polar Sketches. Musk Ox Hunt, Discovery Harbour, Midnight, August 25, 1875 (Print)
Ice tool
Dish
Gauntlet
Pan
Balance
Gauntlet
Snow goggles
Bag
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