[Second Grinnell expedition] – Historic Print
![[Second Grinnell expedition], [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f6/f6496cb8450f-L.webp)
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A window into the past: [Second Grinnell expedition], preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Second Grinnell expedition]
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Few prints from the 1850s capture the Second Grinnell expedition, a privately financed voyage sent in 1853 to search for Sir John Franklin's lost crew. Its two ships, the *Advance* and the *Rescue*, sailed under the naval surgeon Elisha Kent Kane, and the party spent two winters trapped in ice off northwest Greenland. The record gives no date for this print, and the shelflist card links it to the name John Sartain, a Philadelphia engraver, though that attribution is unverified. The subject alone shows how closely the public followed the Franklin search in those years.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on shelflist card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Sartain, John. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,136 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-119021 |
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