Arctic field photographs, 1925.

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Arctic field photographs, 1925.

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Photographs documenting the first successful penetration of the Arctic using airplanes. Includes a portrait of Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth on the train leaving Oslo, Norway for Spitsbergen.

1 photonegative : b&w.1 photoprint : b&w.3 photoprints : b&w mounted on boards.

Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Amundsen-Ellsworth Polar Flight (1926)

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Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951

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Lincoln Ellsworth (b. May 12, 1880, Chicago, Illinois-d. May 26, 1951, New York City), American explorer, engineer, and scientist. Ellsworth led the first trans-Arctic (1926) and trans-Antarctic (1935) air crossings. He first attempted to fly over the North Pole in 1925 with Roald Amundsen. Their planes were forced down onto the ice short of their goal, and the explorers spent 30 days trapped on the surface. In 1926, Ellsworth accompanied Amundsen on his second effort to fly over the Pole in th...

Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928

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While on an Arctic exploration, Amundsen's ship, the Maud, was disabled by a broken propeller off the Siberian coast. He requested assistance from Captain Claude S. Cochran on the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bear. From the description of Radiograms and telegrams : between Amundsen on the disabled auxiliary schooner Maud and the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bear, 1921 July 8-19. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 30352211 Amundsen was a Norwegian polar explorer. ...