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- Archives and manuscripts
"The Poles" by George Fitch, from an unidentified newspaper
Date: 1912Reference: MS.7487/3Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
"The Hidden Tragedies of the Arctic Whaling Fleet" by Robert Dunn, from Harper's Weekly, plus a cutting showing a photograph of Dunn in 1898
Date: c.1906Reference: MS.7487/2Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
"Mobilizing the Arctic" by Christian Leden, from The Outlook
Date: c.1917Reference: MS.7487/5Part 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- Books
Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions and related historical events / R.K. Headland.
Headland, Robert, 1944-Date: 1989- Videos
Kloster-Heilkunde / Angelika Webber.
Date: 2003- 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- Books
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ACTORS IN INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE LAW: THE CASE OF ARCTIC INDIGENOUS PEOPLES.
SCOPELLITI, MARZIADate: 2022- Archives and manuscripts
Letters and photographs
Date: 1885-1911Reference: MS.7485/1-24Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
"A Sculptor in the Arctic Regions" by Albert Operti, cut from Shield's Magazine of Art
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7485/25Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Books
Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 / By John Franklin, captain R.N. ... With an appendix on various subjects relating to science and natural history.
Franklin, John, 1786-1847.Date: 1823- Archives and manuscripts
Letters from Operti to Townsend W. Thorndike
Date: 1911Reference: MS.7485/21-23Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Books
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A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and round the world: ... from the year 1772, to 1776. By Andrew Sparrman, ... Translated from the Swedish original. With plates. In two volumes. ...
Sparrman, Anders, 1748-1820.Date: 1789- Books
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A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and round the world: ... from the year 1772, to 1776. By Andrew Sparrman, ... Translated from the Swedish original. With plates. In two volumes: ...
Sparrman, Anders, 1748-1820.Date: 1786- Books
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A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and round the world: ... from the year 1772, to 1776. By Andrew Sparrman, ... Translated from the Swedish original. With plates. In two volumes. ...
Sparrman, Anders, 1748-1820.Date: 1785- Archives and manuscripts
Photograph of the "Kane pine"
Date: 1910Reference: MS.7485/24Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Letters to Operti
Date: 1885-1909Reference: MS.7485/1-20Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Books
Narrative of a second expedition to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1825, 1826, and 1827 ... / by John Franklin. Including an account of the progress of a detachment to the eastward, by John Richardson, M.D.
Franklin, John, 1786-1847.Date: 1828- Books
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The figure of the earth, determined from observations made by order of the French King, at the Polar Circle / by Messrs. de Maupertuis, Camus, Clairaut, Le Monnier ... the Abbé Outhier ... and Mr. Celsius ... Translated from the French of M. de Maupertuis.
Maupertuis, 1698-1759.Date: 1738- Archives and manuscripts
Anthony Fiala (b. 1869), leader of the 1903-1905 second Ziegler expedition
Date: c.1912Reference: MS.7486/20-21Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross (1877-1856)
Date: 1818-1856Reference: MS.7486/82-88Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930)
Date: 1896-1897Reference: MS.7486/66-68Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Books
A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic Polar circle, and round the world : but chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the year 1772, to 1776 / By Andrew Sparrman. Tr. from the Swedish original [by George Forster]. With plates.
Sparrman, Anders, 1748-1820.Date: 1785- Archives and manuscripts
Robert Peary (1856-1920)
Date: 1902-1920Reference: MS.7486/72-76Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)
Date: 1907Reference: MS.7486/100Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection