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Slide set: [Manchester Geographical Society Collection: Arctic exploration] (lecture: privately made, at least 74 slides, n.d.)

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[1]

Sketch Map, Peary and Cook's Route

[2]

Dr Cook, Snow Hut

[3]

Peary's Sledge [...] reached Pole

[4]

Dr Cook at the Pole

[5]

North Pole, looking towards Bering Strait

[6]

The First Photograph at the North Pole

[7]

View at North Pole, Peary's flag flying

[8]

North Pole -- looking toward Spitzbergen

[9]

North Pole -- looking toward Cape Chelyuskin

[10]

North Pole -- looking toward Cape Columbia

[11]

The Most Western Part of Blaafjeld

[12]

Peary, on the March to North Pole

[13]

Submerged Island of the Polar Sea

[14]

'Across Seas of Crystal Glory to the Boreal Centre'

[15]

Working through an expanse of Rough Ice

[16]

Swinging an Ice Cake across a Lead to form an impromptu Bridge

[17]

Crack in the Ice

[18]

Donald B. Macmillan

Slide 1243**

Iceberg in Mid-Atlantic

[20]

Northernmost Point of Vakkerkap

[21]

Mountains from Heureka Sound

[22]

Dr Nansen

[24]

Dr Cook

[25]

The 'Fram'

[26]

Peary -- Sledge Ruts in Soft Snow

[27]

Cook Returning from Pole

[28]

The Igloo Built, We Prepare for our Daily Camp

[29]

Svartevoeg -- Camping 500 Miles from the Pole

[30]

Bradley Land Discovered

[31]

A Bull Musk Ox at Close Quarters, Cape Columbia

[32]

Great Auk and Egg

[33]

The Ship 'Roosevelt' Beached for repairs at the Head of Etah Fjord

[34]

'King' Eskimo Dog

[35]

Approaching a lead through rough ice

[36]

Swift progress over smooth sea / Building an Igloo / A lifeless world of cold and ice

[37]

Dr Frederick A. Cook

[38]

Dr Cook's Eskimo companions, Ahwelah and Etukishuk

[39]

A Friendly Pair

[40]

Eskimo lamp, adze and scraper

Slide 5

Iglulik snow-house

[42]

Masked Medicine-man of the Kwikpagmiut (Alaskan Eskimo)

[43]

Angmagssalik Group (house dress)

Slide 517

Pump-drill

Slide 12

Polar Eskimo using bow-drill

Slide 3

Tree-Trunk Sledge, Lappland

[47]

Peary's statements as to sleep

[48]

S.S. Ermach entering the Mole at Cronstadt

[50]

S.S. Ermach

[51]

Gale in the Pack, January 20th 1842

[55]

S.S. Ermach

[56]

S.S. Ermach -- Undershod Ice 56 inches thick with 6 inches of Snow on it

[59]

Peary

[65]

List of explorers and points reached in the north

[76]

S.S. Ermach -- Field Ice in the Gulf of Finland

[79]

Herr André

[80]

Rear Admiral Peary

[81]

Peary (left), Bartlett

[82]

Cook

[83]

Beechy Island, Franklin's First Winter Quarters

[84]

Franklin Record

[85]

Peary and Cook

[86]

Cook -- Cape Sperbo

[87]

Herr André

[88]

[Map of Arctic showing MacMillan's route and Peary's 'Crocker Land']

[89]

Entering Lancaster Sound

[90]

[Peary and Rasmussen's maps of north-east Greenland]

[91]

Schedule of Journeys over the Arctic Ocean

[92]

Peary's return to Bartlett's last camp, at 2½ miles an hour

[93]

[Chart showing journey to North Pole]

[94]

Polar observations, in order of reliability

[95]

Peary and Cook's percentages of total days

[101]

Ice field, Spitsbergen

[102]

Advent Bay, Spitsbergen

[103]

S.S. Ermach entering the Mole at Cronstadt

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Number of slides

privately made, England

Main type of image

Main usage of set

Date of first manufacture

Related slide set

see also [Manchester Geographical Society Collection: Antarctic exploration] (lecture: privately made, at least 29 slides, n.d.)

People involved in slide production

COFFIN, E. ( ? - ? ) – creator of source image(s), slide [59]

People appearing in slides

COOK, Dr Frederick A. (1865-1940) – slides [2], [4], [24], [27], [37], [82], [85]-[86]

MACMILLAN, Donald B. (1874-1970) – slide [18]

NANSEN, Dr Fridtjof (1861-1930) – slide [22]

Collections

75 slides in Manchester Geographical Society Collection

75 slides in Manchester Museum Collection

Lucerna ID 3008932

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 27 July 2019

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