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National Anthropological Archives
Album of photographs and sketches relating to arctic voyages
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.2016-09
- Creators:
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Cox, Robert S.
- Dates:
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1908-1917
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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7 Drawingspencil on paper0.21 Linear feet1 box113 Photographic printssilver 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
| 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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