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Albert Operti (fl. 1896-1915)
Date: 1885-1911Reference: MS.7485Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Original documents and cuttings from published material relating to various explorers
Date: 1761-1920Reference: MS.7486Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
John Philip Gell (1816-1898), Secretary of the Tasmanian Society, first Warden of Christ College, Hobart, and later husband of Eleanor Franklin, daughter of the Polar explorer
Date: 1843Reference: MS.7830/13Part of: Miscellany: Australasia, Indonesia and the Pacific, 18th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
Advertisement for the "Explorer" bicycle by Rogers Peet department stores, endorsed by the explorer Anthony Fiala (b.1869)
Date: Early 20th centuryReference: MS.7489/4Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
International Correspondence Schools advertisement
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7489/6Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Player's Navy Mixture tobacco advertisement
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7489/7Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
The Boston Ice Company promotional card
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7489/9Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Pears soap advertisement
Date: 1909Reference: MS.7489/5Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Robert Bartlett, lecture on Newfoundland sealing industry
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7489/3Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
The Carnegie Museum Alaska-Siberia Motion Pictures
Date: Early 20th centuryReference: MS.7489/2Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
A'Top of the World in Motion, motion picture and lecture by Beverley B. Dobbs
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7489/1Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Burroughs Wellcome "Tabloid" Medical Equipment advertisement, stating it to have been carried by Peary and Shackleton
Date: c.1910Reference: MS.7489/8Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Remarks on the proposed admission of the Rev. Dr. Stanley to the place of Dean in the Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster
Date: 1863Reference: MS.7487/18Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Books
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Travels in Siberia: including excursions northwards, down the Obi, to the Polar Circle, and southwards to the Chinese frontier / By Adolph Erman. Translated from the German, by William Desborough Cooley.
Erman, Adolph, 1806-1877.Date: 1848- Videos
Kloster-Heilkunde / Angelika Webber.
Date: 2003- Archives and manuscripts
"The Eskimo Dogs", poem by Alice Jean Cleator, from a periodical concerned with animal welfare
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7487/15Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
"To a Sea-Bird lying in a case in the Bird Museum, University of Texas", poem by Clyde Walton Hill from unidentified periodical
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7487/13Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
A picture of Jan Mayen [Island] in 1639 by Sir [William] Martin Conway (1856-1937), mountaineer, explorer of Spitsbergen and art historian, from an unidentified periodical
Date: Early 20th centuryReference: MS.7487/1Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
2 pages from geography textbooks, each with a map showing the Earth from above the North Pole
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7487/17Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
"Recent Explorations in Siberia" by Ales Hrdlicka (1869-1943), from Science
Date: 1913Reference: MS.7487/4Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
"The Ultimate North", poem written by Robert M. Green for a dinner given to Captain Robert Bartlett (member of the Peary expeditions) by Dr. Townsend W. Thorndike
Date: 1915Reference: MS.7487/14Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
"Eskimo Marriage, Music and Philosophy" by Gregory Mason, from The Outlook, relating studies by Christian Leden
Date: c.1917Reference: MS.7487/6Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Extract from "Passing the Icebergs", a poem by "Read"
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7487/16Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Title page of the journal Bedrock, listing articles published in 1912 including "How could I prove that I had been to the Pole" by H.H. Turner
Date: c.1912Reference: MS.7487/7Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
"The Unknown Land", from unknown American newspaper, reporting on the search for the Arctic land-mass Peary claimed to have sighted and named Crocker Land
Date: c.1914Reference: MS.7487/11Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection