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[Men with horses during polar expedition] – Vintage Wall Art

[Men with horses during polar expedition], [between 1891 and 1909] — historic photograph
[Men with horses during polar expedition], [between 1891 and 1909]. Historic photograph from the Horses 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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Horses are an unusual sight in polar photographs, since fodder was heavy to haul and dogs were the usual choice for sledge travel in the Arctic. This glass negative comes from the papers of Frederick Albert Cook, the American physician and explorer whose Arctic journeys spanned the 1890s and the first decade of the 1900s. The record does not name the specific expedition, so the photograph is best read as a glimpse of the logistics of northern travel. Its survival on glass, a fragile and easily broken medium, also preserves a detailed record of how early expeditions prepared and moved.

Created / published[between 1891 and 1909]
Medium1 negative : glass.
GenreExpedition photographs 1890-1910.Glass negatives 1890-1910.
NotesForms part of: Visual materials from the papers of Federick Albert Cook Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsHorses--Arctic regions--1890-1910. Discovery & exploration--Arctic regions--1890-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,290 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-203906

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