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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 port stern quarter view of 'Alert' (1856) alongside the ice floe, with the crew cutting an ice dock in Dobbin Bay. (Photographic print)
A view in Alexandra Bay [Princess Alexandra Harbour] looking at the ice left grounded by the falling tide. (Photographic print)
A view of Rawson, Hart and Fulford of 'Discovery' (1873) on the ice at the entrance to Franklin Pierce Bay looking east towards Cape Prescott. (Photographic print)
View from 'Discovery' (1873) of 'Alert' (1856) ashore in Radmore Harbour, Rawlings Bay. (Photographic print)
A view looking northeast towards Cape Hilgard, with 'Alert' (1856) in an ice dock in Dobbin Bay. (Photographic print)
A view from the main top of 'Discovery' (1873) in her ice dock, looking northward up Dobbin Bay. (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)
Possibly Lieutenant Rawson of 'Discovery' (1873) with a dogwhip standing on the ice. (Photographic print)
A view of young ice forming in the foreground around broken fragments of floe, cementing them together. (Photographic print)
'Alert' (1856) in Winter Quarters at Floeberg Beach' on the north coast of Ellesmere Island. (Photographic print)
A view along the east coast of Ellesmere Island off Cape Collinson, looking south. (Photographic print)
Looking north to the head of Franklin Pierce Bay from 'Discovery' (1873). (Photographic print)
A view from one of the ice docks near Cape Hilgard in Dobbin Bay looking towards the northwest coast, with part of Cape Schott on the left (Photographic print)
View from near 'Discovery' (1873) looking eastward with possibly Hans 'the Esquimeaux' in foreground. (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)
A view from near one of the ships towards Cape Louis Napoleon on the northeast coast of Dobbin Bay. (Photographic print)
A view of young ice forming in the foreground around broken fragments of floe, cementing them together. (Photographic print)
Four different compositions of 'Alert' (1856) in the ice dock in Dobbin Bay. (Photographic print)
'Alert' (1856) in the ice, possibly between Lincoln Bay and Wrangel Bay on the way south in 1876, or north in 1875. (Photographic print)
A view looking west from entrance of Franklin Pierce Bay towards Cape Harrison. (Photographic print)
Discovery' (1873) with awnings rigged and ice piled around the ship, Discovery Harbour, Lady Franklin Sound (Bay). (Photographic print)
Discovery' (1873) with awnings rigged, and the smithy and theatre, Discovery Harbour, Lady Franklin Sound (Bay). (Photographic print)
A starboard broadside view of 'Alert' (1856) stopped in the ice in Buchanan Bay, Hayes Sound (Photographic print)
A view of a section through the sea ice showing the overlying layers of fresh water ice and snow. (Photographic print)
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