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Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows the HMS Alert anchored near an ice floe in Cape Prescott, Dobbin Bay, Canada. Several crew members can be seen standing on the ice to the left of the frame. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 31 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Cape Prescott, Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N - no water to northward, ships in dock

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows either Washington Irving Island or Sphinx Island in Dobbin Bay, near Ellesmere Island, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 25 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Washington Irving or Sphinx Island, 79° 35’ N

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows the HMS Alert, with full sails, stopped in the ice pack in Princess Marie Bay, near Ellesmere Island, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 17 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Princess Marie Bay: Lat 79° 20’ N, "Alert" stopped

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows the HMS Discovery (left) and HML Alert (right) anchored in the ice pack in Franklin Pierce Bay, near Greenland. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 18 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Franklin Pierce Bay, 79° 30’ N, no water north

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows the HMS Alert bedded down for the winter in the ice pack. Snowy mountains loom behind the ship. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 48 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N, floe-bergs aground protecting ship from northern pack

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows ice floes and ice formation in Dobbin Bay, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 35 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N (Dark part is young ice - one part over running the other)

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows the ice pack in Cape Fraser, Canada. The HMS Alert and HMS Discovery were forced to separate to find shelter. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 41 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

"Alert" stopped off Cape Fraser, 79° 45’ N - no shelter, ships obliged to separate

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows Lieutenant Wyatt Rawson (1853-82) practicing using a dog whip on the ice at ape Norton Shaw, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 45 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Cape Norton Shaw, 80° 10’ N - Lieutenant Wyatt Rawson practising dog whip

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print mounted on board. Seascape with solar effect by Gustave Le Gray. '14,757' noted on verso.

Seascape with solar effect

Photographs

ca. 1857
Albumen print of Edith, Ina and Alice Liddell on a sofa, photographed by by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), 1858.

Edith, Ina and Alice Liddell on Sofa

Photographs

1858
Albumen print of Alice Liddell as a young woman, (plus, on verso, Mr Alan Hargreaves), by an unknown photographer about 1870.

Alice Liddell as a Young Woman

Photographs

c 1870
A photographic portrait of an unknown woman taken by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) in about 1868. Albumen print.

Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Photographs

c 1868
Photograph entitled 'Little May du Maurier' taken by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874. A photographic portrait of Marie Louise ' May' Du Maurier (1868-1934), taken by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) in 1874. One of the five children of George (1834-1896) and Emma Du Maurier, May was sketched many times by her father and was the original of Marty in his novel 'The Martian' (1897). Albumen print.

Little May du Maurier

Photographs

1874
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image of a rocky landscape with mountain in background and icy lake in foreground. Taken in Greenland during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page six of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Greenland landscape

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image the HMS Discovery anchored at Egedesminde (now Aasiaat), Greenland. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page nine of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Egedesminde, Greenland

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows the HMS Alert anchored in the ice pack in Franklin Pierce Bay. In the foreground, a crew member poses while harpooning a dead walrus. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 19 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

HMS Alert, Franklin Pierce Bay, 79° 25’ N, walrus shoal (extreme northern point of migration of walrus)

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows Prince Imperial Island and ice floes in Dobbin Bay, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 34 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N, Prince Imperial Island

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows ice floes in Cape Collinson, Canada, with Cape Fraser visible in the distance. The HMS Alert and HMS Discovery were forced to separate to find shelter. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 42 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Cape Fraser in distance - Cape Collinson, 80° 10’ N

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows the HMS Alert anchored near an ice floe in Dobbin Bay, Canada. Several crew members can be seen working to build a dock out of the ice. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 30 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N - Cutting a dock

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows ice floes and hills in Dobbin Bay, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 39 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

79° 40’ N

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows ice floes and Empress Eugenie Glacier in Dobbin Bay, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 33 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N, Empress Eugénie Glacier in distance

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows the HMS Alert anchored near an ice floe in Franklin Pierce Bay, Greenland. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 16 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Franklin Pierce Bay: Lat 79° 30’ N. No water to the northward

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows icebergs floating in a bay, with mountains in the background. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 50 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

80° 20’ N - Icebergs and heavy floes

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows ice floes and distant hills in Dobbin Bay, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 38 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

79° 40’ N

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Contact sheet containing four photographs of the HMS Discovery moored in the ice pack in Dobbin Bay, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 26 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

"Discovery" Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print of man, 3/4 length 140x190mm, with brass matte, domed top. In Morocco covered case with double doors; hinged supporting foot.

Photograph in standing case

Photographic Technology
Albumen print of Lorina Liddell, seated, holding a doll, photographed by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Summer 1858.

Lorina Liddell Holding a Doll

Photographs

1858
Albumen print by Julia Margaret Cameron, head of woman, Ceylon. A photographic portrait of a girl from Ceylon, (Sri Lanka) taken by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) in about 1877. She was probably a maidservant or plantation worker.

Young Woman, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), about 1877

Photographs

1872-1979
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image of an inlet or lake at Prøven (now Kangersuatsiaq), Greenland. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page eight of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Prøven, Greenland

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Landscape image of Egedesminde (now Aasiaat), Greenland. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 10 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Egedesminde, Greenland

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows the HMS Alert moored on the shore at Radmore Harbour, Rawlins Bay, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 49 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Radmore Harbour, Rawlins Bay 80° 20’ N - "Alert" forced on shore at high water. Low water-ice aground

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image of the HMS Alert (left) and HMS Discovery (centre) in the bay at Discko, Greenland. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page one of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Disco, Greenland

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image, taken from the HMS Discovery, shows the HMS Discovery (left) and HMS Alert (right) moored in the ice pack in Franklin Pierce Bay. A mountain looms in the background. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 22 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Franklin Pierce Bay, 79° 30’ N

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows ice floes and hills in Dobbin Bay, Cape Prescott, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 40 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N, Cape Prescott

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Contact sheet containing four photographs of the HMS Discovery moored in the ice pack in Dobbin Bay, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 27 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

"Discovery" Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows the HMS Alert surrounded by ice at Beechey Island, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 53 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Alert nipped between grounded floe-berg and the shore, Cape Beechey, 81° 45’ N

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print mounted on card with Colnaghi blind stamp, framed and glazed by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879). 'From Life Registered photograph copyright Julia Margaret Cameron May 1869' inscribed in ink. Reputedly portrait of Rev. Stenton Cardley, Vicar of Streatham. Eardley was the vicar of Emmanuel Church in Streatham, Surrey. He was a friend of Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) with whom he travelled through France and Switzerland in 1869. 34 x 27.5cm.

Portrait of Rev Stanton Cardley, 1869

Photographs

1869-05
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image of Prøven (now Kangersuatsiaq), Greenland, taken from Baffin Bay. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page seven of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Prøven, Greenland

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image, taken from the HMS Discovery, shows the HMS Alert in the distance in Franklin Pierce Bay. Snow capped mountains can be seen in the background. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 21 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Franklin Pierce Bay, 79° 30’ N

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows an 'ice foot' in low water at Rawlins Bay, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 46 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Rawlins Bay, 80° 20’ N - Icefoot, August, low water, small floe-berg aground

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows ice floes in Dobbin Bay, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 36 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

79° 40’ N

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows either Washington Irving Island or Sphinx Island in Dobbin Bay, near Ellesmere Island, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 24 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Washington Irving or Sphinx Island, Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows the HMS Discovery anchored read an ice floe at Cape York, Baffin Bay, Greenland. Sled dogs can be seen in the foreground. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 15 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

HMS Discovery, Cape York

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows ice floes in Dobbin Bay, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 37 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

79° 40’ N

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows an iceberg in the bay at Egedesminde, Greenland. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 44 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Egedesminde, Greenland

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows the HMS Alert surrounded by ice at Beechey Island, Canada. Crew members use ice picks to break up the berg. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 54 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Floeberg aground outside "Alert" - 3 days cutting it down to lighten it before it floated away, Cape Beachey, 81° 45’ N

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows the HMS Alert anchored near an ice floe in Dobbin Bay, Canada. Taken from the deck of the HMS Discovery. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 28 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Dobbin Bay, 79° 35’ N - "Alert" cutting a dock

Photographs

1875-1876
Albumen print by Thomas Mitchell and George White. Image shows HMS Valorous and HMS Discovery anchored at Disko Island, Greenland. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 43 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 1."

Disco, Greenland with HMS Valorous and Discovery

Photographs

1875-1876
Two albums containing 295 albumen prints by William Notman, 1870-1875

Two albums containing 295 albumen prints by William Notman

Photographs

1870-1875
Albumen print from wet collodion negative entitled 'Mary Hiller,' photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1865-1866.

Mary Hiller

Photographs

1865-1866