Lat. 79 23' N. Looking towards the head of Franklin Pearce [Pierce] Bay, 8th Aug. 1875. Water pools on the floe frozen over. Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Genre: Landscape Photography View from ship looking across the ice floes towards the head of the bay.
Lat. 81 44' N. Winter quarters H.M.S. 'Discovery.' View facing the south a week before the sun rose. The theatre, smithy, and skating rink, Feb. 1876. [Discovery Harbour, Ellesmere Island.] Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Inscription: Signed 'T. Mitchell No. 47,' and also inscribed in the negative, 'H.M.S. Discovery and skating rink photographed the 21 Feby 1876 Temp -46 Sun rose the 28th Feby.' Genre: Historical Events View looking across the ice towards the ship.
Lat. 81 44' N. Winter quarters H.M.S. 'Discovery.' The ice broken up and the ship ready for sea, Aug. 1876. [Discovery Harbour, Ellesmere Island.] Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Genre: Historical Events View looking across the bay towards 'Discovery,' the ship surrounded by broken and melting ice floes. Also reproduced in woodburytype in G. S. Nares, 'Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875-6' (2 vols., London, 1878), vol. 2, p. 141.
Lat. 81 44' N. The post office cairn at the 'Discovery's' winter quarters, Aug. 1876. Cape Baird in distance. [Discovery Harbour, Ellesmere Island.] Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Inscription: Signed 'T. M.' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking out across the bay, with the cairn on the shore in the foreground.
Lat. 81 44' N. 'Discovery's' winter quarters, Aug. 1876. The breakwater spit protecting the bay from the pack ice. [Discovery Harbour, Ellesmere Island.] Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
Trinity Rock 1800 feet high, from Trinity Bay, River Saguenay. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View along the riverbank towards the headland of Trinity Rock, with a figure posed against a rock in the foreground. Stereo half.