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- Archives and manuscripts
"Eskimo Dogs for the Market", describing breeding Eskimo dogs in Grove Park, London, from the Scientific American
Date: 1912Reference: MS.7487/9Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
"In the vicinity of St. John's Newfoundland", from unidentified periodical, reproducing photographs by W.A.B. Sclater
Date: Late 19th century - early 20th centuryReference: MS.7487/12Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- Archives and manuscripts
"South Pole Ahoy!", from Life magazine, parody claiming that the South Pole has been reached by the magazine's representatives and mentioning both Robert Peary and Frederick Cook
Date: c.1910Reference: MS.7487/10Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- 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- Books
Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions and related historical events / R.K. Headland.
Headland, Robert, 1944-Date: 1989- Books
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ACTORS IN INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE LAW: THE CASE OF ARCTIC INDIGENOUS PEOPLES.
SCOPELLITI, MARZIADate: 2022- 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- 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- 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- 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
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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- 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
Letters from Operti to Townsend W. Thorndike
Date: 1911Reference: MS.7485/21-23Part of: Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection- 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
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The life of Sir Charles Linnæus, Knight of the Swedish order of the Polar Star, &c. &c. To which is added, a copious list of his works, and a biographical sketch of the life of his son: by D. H. Stoever, PH.D. Translated from the original German by Joseph Trapp, A.M.
Stoever, Dietrich Heinrich, 1767-1822.Date: 1794- Books
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Anecdotes and observations with some account of the life of Emanuel Swedenborg. To which is prefixed, an eulogium, composed by Monsieur Sandel, superintendand of the mines, knight of the order of the Polar Star, and member of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholym. And delivered in the Great Hall of the House of Nobles. October 7, 1772.
Sandels, Samuel, 1724-1784.Date: [1800?]- 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