Lat. 79 39' N. The 'Discovery' cutting a dock in Dobbin Bay. Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Inscription: Dated '13.8.75' in the negative. Genre: Historical Events Showing 'Discovery' held in the ice, with figures at work on the floes 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.
Lat. 79 25' N. Fast to the floe under Cape Prescott, Franklin Pearce [Pierce] Bay, 9th Aug. 1875. Waiting to proceed north. Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Genre: Historical Events View of 'Alert' and 'Discovery' at the edge of the ice-field, with cliffs in the background..
Lat 79 23' N. In Franklin Pearce [Pierce] Bay. On the evening of the 8th Aug. 1875. To the left of Cape Harrison is part of Cape Victoria. One season's ice, very rotten. Photographer: Mitchell, Thomas
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Genre: Landscape Photography View from the deck of one of the expedition ships, looking across the ice floes towards (?)'Alert.'