Lat. 79 39' N. Off Cape Hayes, looking to the south-westward. Heavy rubble ice, 10 a.m., 16th Aug 1875. Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Genre: Landscape Photography Also repoduced as an engraving in G. S. Nares, 'Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea during 1875-6' (2 vols., London, 1878), vol. 2, p. 153, and there credited to Thomas Mitchell.
Lat. 79 8' N. Off the watercourse, looking to the south-westward. Cape Hawkes in the distance. Forenoon, 17th Aug. 1875. Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Inscription: Dated '19.8.75' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View across the ice towards the shore. The caption gives the date as 17 August, although the photograph is dated '19.8.75' in the negative.
Lat. 80 3' N. Off Cape Collinson, looking to the northward. Ships fast to a large heavy floe. Practising with the dog-whip. Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Genre: Landscape Photography View across the ice towards the headland, with a figure holding a whip posed on the ice in the foreground.
Lat. [8]1 44' N. Winter quarters of the 'Discovery.' 'Discovery' frozen in 6th Sept. 1875. The black ice is the young ice; the white ice is old, and was frozen in like the ship. [Discovery Harbour, Ellesmere Island.] Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Genre: Historical Events View of 'Discovery' at her moorings, with figures posed on the shore in the foreground.
Lat. 81 44' N. The winter quarters of the 'Discovery,' with the depot and obervatories on shore, Sept. 1875. The young ice coated with light snow. [Discovery Harbour, Ellesmere Island.] Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Genre: Historical Events View of 'Discovery' at her moorings, with the shore depot on the left.