Charles Hall collection 1869-1871

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Charles Hall collection 1869-1871

Expedition material (12 leaves) correspondence (2 leaves)

eng,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6285149

Scott Polar Research Institute

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Hall, Charles Francis, 1821-1871

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Charles Francis Hall (b. 1821 - d. November 8, 1871) In 1849, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he established a small seal-engraving business and, in the late 1850s, two small newspapers, the Cincinnati Occasional and the Daily Press . Developing a keen interest in the Arctic, he decided to mount an expedition to search for survivors of Sir John Franklin's missing Northwest Passage expedition of 1845-1848. In 1860, Hall travelled to the east coast of the United States where he met...