Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.2016-09
- Creators:
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- Dates:
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1908-1917
- Languages:
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- Physical Description:
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7 Drawings
pencil on paper
113 Photographic prints
silver gelatin
- Repository:
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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
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
National Anthropological Archives
Museum Support Center
4210 Silver Hill Road
Suitland, Maryland 20746
naa@si.edu
