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Roald Amundsen – Historic Print

Roald Amundsen, 1906 Sept. 1. — historic photograph
Roald Amundsen, 1906 Sept. 1.. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Roald Amundsen. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Roald Amundsen

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Dated September 1906, this portrait of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen comes from a moment when his name was appearing in newspapers around the world. The Library's caption card ties the picture to Arctic exploration that year, when Amundsen's small sloop *Gjøa* completed a passage through the Northwest Passage, the sea route across the Canadian Arctic that had defeated many earlier expeditions. The photographer is credited as F.H. Nowell, but the record notes that its date and other details are unverified, so the exact circumstances of the sitting remain uncertain.

Created / published1906 Sept. 1.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsCopyright by F.H. Nowell. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings:Photog I.; Arctic exploration--1906; BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,227 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-138893

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