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Harrigan – Historic Print

Harrigan — historic photograph
Harrigan. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The record gives this photograph the title *Harrigan*, and that name is the most distinctive detail the catalog offers, though it does not say what or who it refers to. The date is given as 1901 or 1902, when Frederick Albert Cook was traveling in Greenland. Expeditions to the far north drew wide public interest then, and explorers often photographed the Inuit communities they visited. Cook, a physician later known for his disputed claim to have reached the North Pole in 1908, used the camera on several northern voyages, so the picture is best read as a record of those encounters on the Greenland coast.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[1901 or 1902]
SubjectsCook, Frederick Albert,--1865-1940--Travel--Greenland. Inuit--Greenland--1900-1910. Expeditions & surveys--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,165 × 5,113 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-211442

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