Yacht Jeannette – Vintage Wall Art
(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.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Yacht Jeannette in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Yacht Jeannette
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Few vessels in the Currier & Ives catalog have a story as dramatic as the Jeannette. Built as the British naval gunboat Pandora, she was bought in 1878 by newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett Jr., who renamed her for his sister and sent her toward the Arctic under Lieutenant George W. De Long. In 1881 the ship was crushed by ice in the East Siberian Sea and sank, and her crew faced a grueling overland retreat. The print, dated around that year, captures the vessel at the height of public interest in the expedition.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1881. |
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| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 9,016 × 6,832 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 8 |
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