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Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection

Original documents and cuttings from published material relating to various explorers

Duke of Abruzzi (1873-1933)

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928)

Admiral Sir George Back F.R.S. (1796-1878)

Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), naturalist and traveller

Sir Francis Thornhill Baring (1796-1866)

Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort (1774-1857)

Admiral [Frederick] William Beechey (1796-1856), Arctic explorer

Umberto Cagni (1863-1932)

Sir Richard Collinson (1811-1883), commander of a Franklin search expedition

Sir [William] Martin Conway (1856-1937)

Dr. Frederick Cook (1865-1940)

James Cook (1728-1779), circumnavigator

Edwin J. De Haven (1816-1865), commander of first American Franklin relief expedition

Arthur Dobbs (1689-1765), Governor of North Carolina and Arctic explorer

Anthony Fiala (b. 1869), leader of the 1903-1905 second Ziegler expedition

Jane, Lady Franklin (1792-1875)

Sir John Franklin (1786-1847), Arctic explorer

Adolphus Greely (1844-1935), leader of the 1881-1884 U.S. expedition to Lady Franklin Bay

Moses H. Grinnell (1803-1877), shipping magnate, philanthropist and joint promoter of the 1853-1855 Kane expedition

Charles Francis Hall (1821-1871)

Francis Lafayette Harris (d. 1913), member of 1860 Hayes expedition

Henry Hartsterne (fl. 1839-1855), commander of 1855 Kane relief expedition

Matthew Henson (1866-1955), member of Peary's Polar expeditions

Gustav Holm (1849-1940), leader of Danish expedition to Eastern Greenland

Henry Howgate (fl. 1878), proposer of what was to become the Greely expedition to Lady Franklin Bay

George Kennan (1845-1924), traveller in Siberia

E. de K. Leffingwell (fl. 1909)

James Lockwood (1852-1884), member of the 1881-1884 Greely expedition to Lady Franklin Bay and achiever of that expedition's farthest North

Sir Clements Robert Markham F.R.S. (1830-1916), geographer and historical writer

Sir Douglas Mawson (1882-1958), Australian Antarctic explorer

George Wallace Melville (1841-1912), survivor of the 1879 Jeannette expedition led by George Washington De Long (1844-1881)

Robert Melville, 2nd Viscount Dundas (1771-1851)

Ejnar Mikkelsen (1880-1971), leader of expedition to North-East Greenland to recover bodies and records from the expedition of Ludvig Mylius Erichsen (1872-1907)

John Muir (1838-1914), naturalist, explorer of Alaska

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930)

Sir George Strong Nares (1831-1915), leader of British North Pole Expedition, 1875

William Nindemann (d.1919), member of Hall's 1871-1872 Polaris expedition, the 1879 Jeannette expedition led by George Washington De Long (1844-1881) and the 1884 Greely relief expedition

Sir William Edward Parry (1790-1855)

Julius von Payer (1842-1915), Austrian explorer and painter

Robert Peary (1856-1920)

August Petermann (1822-1878), German geographer ("the Sage of Gotha") and promulgator of an Open Polar Sea theory

Constantine John Phipps, 2nd Baron Mulgrave (d.1792)

Admiral Bedford Clapperton Trevelyan Pim (1826-1886), member of 1852 Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin

Henry Vincent Radcliffe (d.1913) and George Street (d.1913), Northern explorers

Sir George Henry Richards (1820-1896), Hydrographer to the Admiralty

Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross (1877-1856)

General Sir Edward Sabine F.R.S. (1788-1883)

Rear-Admiral Winfield Scott Schley (1839-1909), commander of the 1884 Greely relief expedition

Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912)

Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922)

Chief Louis Shotridge, Alaskan anthropologist

Sir George Simpson (1792-1860), Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company

E. Timins

Walter Wellman (1858-1934), explorer and journalist

Sir Allen Young (1827-1915), member of Franklin search expeditions

Coropuna: first ascent

John Adams (fl. 1885)

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John Adams (fl. 1885)

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