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. 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. 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. [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.