[Hunting musk ox at Cape Sparbo, Devon Island, the campsite where Dr. Cook and his party stayed for 100 nights during their return trip from the North Pole] – Historic Reproduction
![[Hunting musk ox at Cape Sparbo, Devon Island, the campsite where Dr. Cook and his party stayed for 100 nights during their return trip from the North Pole], New York : Made by Chas. Beseler Co., [1908] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4b/4b2034239bf8-L.webp)
(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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[Hunting musk ox at Cape Sparbo, Devon Island, the campsite where Dr. Cook and his party stayed for 100 nights during their return trip from the North Pole]
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Cape Sparbo on Devon Island was the campsite where Dr. Frederick Cook and his party stayed for 100 nights while returning from the North Pole, and this hand-colored lantern slide records a musk ox hunt carried out there. Made by the Chas. Beseler Co. of New York around 1908, it was later reproduced in Cook's 1911 book *My Attainment of the Pole*, opposite page 384. Cook's claim to have reached the pole was disputed at the time and is not accepted by most historians, so the picture is best read as part of his own account of the journey.
| Created / published | New York : Made by Chas. Beseler Co., [1908] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 slide : lantern, hand colored. |
| Genre | Expedition photographs 1900-1910.Lantern slides Hand colored 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Published in: My attainment of the pole, being the record of the expedition that first reached the boreal center, 1907-1909 ... / Frederick A. Cook. New York : The Polar Publishing Co., 1911, opp. p. 384. transparency) |
| Subjects | Musk ox hunting--Arctic regions--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,283 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179980 |
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