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    SIR EDWARD AUGUSTUS INGLEFIELD (1820-94)

    H.M. Ships 'Phoenix' & 'Talbot' in search of Sir John Franklin, 1854

    1854

    Half moroccan leather bound album containing salted paper prints (some hand-coloured) | RCIN 2510457

    Photograph album containing thirty salted paper prints taken by Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield during his search for Sir John Franklin of people and scenes in and around Sisimiut or Holsteinsborg in Greenland in 1854

    • Creator(s)

      Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94) (photographer)

      Subject(s)

      Sir John Franklin (1786-1847)
      Phoenix (HMS)
      Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-94)
      Talbot (HMS)
      Inuit
      HMS Diligence (storeship, launched 1814; sold 1904)
    • Presented to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert by Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield in 1854

    • Subject(s)
      • Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
        • Photography
          • Photographs
      • Science, Medicine and Technology
        • Engineering & Technology
          • Vessels (marine)
            • Ships
      • Places
        • Polar regions
          • Arctic territories
            • Greenland [Denmark]
              • Sisimiut [Greenland]
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • albums
            • photograph albums
          • photographs
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