Lat. 81 48' N. At Cape Beechey. View from the 'Alert's' bridge, looking N.E. Showing some of the grounded floe-bergs which protected the ship, Aug. 1876. Photographer: White, George
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Genre: Historical Events View looking towards the ice floes, with rigging in foreground.
Lat. 82 27' N. Winter quarters of the 'Alert.' Old ice scratched by contact with the sea bottom, then turned over by pressure. Photographer: White, George
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Genre: Historical Events Port view of the 'Alert' held fast in the ice, with discoloured ice in foreground.
Lat. 82 27' N. Winter quarters of the 'Alert,' looking S.E. towards Cape Rawson. The line of floe-bergs and smooth ice inside of them. Photographer: White, George
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Genre: Historical Events A very distant view of the 'Alert' held fast in the ice.
Lat. 81 48' N. At Cape Beechey. The nip. Cutting away the top of a grounded floe-berg to enable it to float away and release the ship, Aug. 1876. Photographer: White, George
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Genre: Historical Events View of party at work on the ice beside 'Alert.'
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. The people who did not leave the ship in the early spring sledging season. A discarded face protector on snow bank. [Discovery Harbour, Ellesmere Island.] Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Inscription: Signed 'T. M. No. 49' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography Group posed beside 'Discovery.'
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. Winter quarters H.M.S. 'Discovery.' From the hills abreast the ship. A bird's eye view of the harbour and the mile. [Discovery Harbour, Ellesmere Island.] Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Inscription: Signed 'T. M. No. 57' in the negative. Genre: Historical Events View looking down onto the bay, with a distant view of 'Discovery' held in the ice.