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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- 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
"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- 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