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  • Rain charms- DOIOM from Expeditions to the Torres Straits
  • Colonial Studies, expeditions and drugs. Copy prepared by Dr. F. Guerra.
  • Nepal; Sherpa porters in the Khumbu, 1986. Well-dressed Sherpa porters prepare for a trekking expedition organised for a party of western vacationists. They will guide, bring up the rear, cook and strike camp. Such expeditions pay cash wages far in excess of anything Sherpas could hope to earn elsewhere and such income is invested in loans, cattle, land, tradeable articles and jewellery. Until the influx of mountaineering expeditions following Hillary's Everest climb (1953), western medicine was unknown in the Khumbu. Distribution of mainly analgesic and antibiotic drugs has led to misuse.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographic explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude : prosecuted in accordance with Acts of Congress under the authority of the Honorable the Secretary of War, and the direction of A.A. Humphreys, embracing results of the different expeditions under Geo. M. Wheeler.
  • Jebel Moya & Lachish expedition.
  • Medicine chest supplied to Shackleton Expedition
  • Jebel Moya & Lachish expedition, school
  • Tabloid medicine chest from Scott Polar Expedition
  • Supplies for the British Antartic expedition, 1910
  • Tabloid medicine chest used on 1933 Mount Everest Expedition
  • Tabloid medicine chest used on 1933 Mount Everest Expedition
  • Tabloid medicine chest used on 1933 Mount Everest Expedition
  • Tabloid medicine chest used on 1933 Mount Everest Expedition
  • Tabloid medicine chest used on 1933 Mount Everest Expedition
  • Joseph Dutton and John Todd: Expedition Diary Vol. II.
  • Joseph Dutton and John Todd: Expedition Diary Vol. II.
  • Narrative of a five years' expedition. J. Stedman, 1796.
  • A Burroughs Wellcome Co medicine chest used on the British Antarctic Expedition
  • The Plague Expedition to Anzob in Russian Turkestan. Photograph album by A.M. Levin, 1899.
  • The Plague Expedition to Anzob in Russian Turkestan. Photograph album by A.M. Levin, 1899.
  • The Plague Expedition to Anzob in Russian Turkestan. Photograph album by A.M. Levin, 1899.
  • The Plague Expedition to Anzob in Russian Turkestan. Photograph album by A.M. Levin, 1899.
  • The Plague Expedition to Anzob in Russian Turkestan. Photograph album by A.M. Levin, 1899.
  • The Plague Expedition to Anzob in Russian Turkestan. Photograph album by A.M. Levin, 1899.
  • The Plague Expedition to Anzob in Russian Turkestan. Photograph album by A.M. Levin, 1899.