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A Matter of Life and Death
Franklin relics
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armament t&e, ammunition: cover, gun(gun or sword cover) ?
Axe, Ice
Balaclava
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Boot, pair
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building: tent
Chart
clothing, footwear: shoe(pair)
clothing, footwear: shoe, over
clothing, footwear: shoe, over(pair)
clothing, footwear: slipper(pair)
clothing, headwear: balaclava
clothing, headwear: hat
clothing, headwear: helmet
clothing, headwear: uniform: hat, sennit
clothing, outerwear: mitten
clothing, outerwear: mitten(pair)
clothing, outerwear: mitten, over(pair)
clothing, outerwear: suit, duffle
clothing, outerwear: suit, over(coat & trousers)
clothing accessory: gaiter(pair)
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documentary artifact: map(3 maps)
documentary artifact: ship plan: body
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, forecastle
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, lower
documentary artifact: ship plan: deck, upper
documentary artifact: ship plan: hold
documentary artifact: ship plan: lines
documentary artifact: ship plan: profile, inboard
documentary artifact: ship plan: sail
documentary artifact: ship plan: section
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, construction
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, midship
documentary artifact: ship plan: sheer
documentary artifact: tent, model
drafting t&e: dividers
drafting t&e: set, drawing instrument
Drawing Instrument set
Drinking flask
Duffle suit
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Face mask
Flask, Drinking
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: mug
food service t&e: spoon
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Gun cover
Harness, sledge
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Ice saw
iceworking t&e: axe, ice
iceworking t&e: saw, ice(part: handle)
iceworking t&e: saw, snow
Inboard profile plan
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land transport: sledge
land transport: sledge(8 man sledge)
land transport accessory: harness, sledge(for a man)
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Over shoes
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Pelt
Pemmican Chopper
personal gear: goggles, snow
personal gear: knapsack
personal gear: knife, sheath
personal gear: mask, face
personal gear: square, blanket(1 of 5)
Photographic print
Plate
Pocket compass
Print
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)
sail
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sheer
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Snow goggles
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Stuffed arctic hare
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Suit, Over
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, pocket
Technical drawing
Trousers, over
Upper deck plan
water transport: exploration/research vessel (HMS)
water transport: exploration/research vessel: survey vessel
water transport: exploration/research vessel: survey vessel (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: sloop (HMS)
water transport: research/exploration vessel: discovery vessel
water transport: service vessel: storeship
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black ink
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glass
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organic: canvas
organic: cotton
organic: hessian
organic: horn
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organic: sealskin
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Burton, H
Cary
Davies & Company
Erskine
Fooks, L W
Hassle, E
Hay, D
HM Admiralty
Hudson & Son
Jack, Thomas C.
King, Phillip Parker
Maclear, J. P.
McFarlane & Erskine
Mitchell, Thomas
Moss, Edward Lawton
Owen, WiIliam Fitzwilliam
Robinson, William
Stokes, Pringle
Thomas, David
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W. T. Copeland & Sons Ltd
Ward, Marcus, & Co
Weller, Edward
White, George
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Ellesmere Island
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Greenwich
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Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876
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Adventure (1809)
Alert (1856)
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Erskine
Harley, Daniel William, Daniel William
McFarlane & Erskine
Montijo, Eugénie de
Nares, George Strong
Parr, Alfred Arthur Chase
Pembroke Dockyard
Peterson, N. C.
W. T. Copeland & Sons Ltd
Wooley, W P
Woolley, W P, W P
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HMS Alert (1856) (Technical drawing)
Alert (1856) (Technical drawing)
HMS Alert (1856) (Technical drawing)
Alert (1856) (Technical drawing)
Alert (1856) (Technical drawing)
Alert (1856) (Technical drawing)
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The Alert pressed on shore in Kennedy Channel (Print)
Capn. G S Nares RN (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)
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