National Anthropological Archives

Album of photographs and sketches relating to arctic voyages

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.2016-09
Creators:
Cox, Robert S.
Dates:
1908-1917
Languages:
English
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Physical Description:
7 Drawings
pencil on paper
0.21 Linear feet
1 box
113 Photographic prints
silver gelatin
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Album of photographs and sketches relating to voyages, primarily in the arctic. Includes photographs from the steamer Neptune's 1917 rescue of Donald MacMillan and other members of the Crocker Land Relief Expedition, as well as the Northern Ventures Expedition, ca 1912. Photographs depict Inuit men, women, and children from Greenland and Baffin Island, sailors, sea ice, arctic and marine mammals, and walrus and narwhal ivory. Sketches are portraits, most likely of other sailors or expedition members.

Administration

Author
Gina Rappaport
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Album was donated by Benton and Elizabeth Cox Leach in 2015.
Custodial History
The album was collected by Elizabeth Cox Leach's father, Robert S. Cox, who worked at the Sailors Snug Harbor (a home for retired sailors) on Staten Island. It is assumed that the album once belonged to a resident of the Sailor's Snug Harbor.

Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Inuit (Canadian Eskimo) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Arctic peoples Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Greenland Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Photographs -- 1900-1920 Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Baffin Island (Canada) Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Pond Inlet (Inuit Community) Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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