IDNO

P.86314.PAT

Description

Infra-red photograph taken from shore of possibly a fiord containing pack ice and ice bergs, and surrounding hills. A wooden pyramid structure is in the foreground.

Physical Condition: Infra-red photograph

Place

N America; Arctic; Greenland; ?Qaanaaq; ?Hvalsund; ?Robertosn Bay [Whale Sound; Thule]

Cultural Affliation

Inuit; Inughuit [historically Polar Kalaallit; Polar Eskimo]

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

5 - 13 August 1937

Collection Name

Paterson Collection

Source

Paterson, Erik T.

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Image: Same image mounted in James Wordie’s 1937 album with the number and caption:
“August 5 -13.”
“476 - 8. Wolsterholme fjord from Old Thule, the site of Capt. Comer’s Midden.”
See Related Documents File. [Jocelyne Dudding 7/3/2008]

Bibliographical Reference: J. M. Wordie; H. Carmichael; E. G. Dymond; T. C. Lethbridge, ‘An Expedition to North West Greenland and the Canadian Arctic in 1937’ in The Geographical Journal, Vol. 92, No. 5. (Nov., 1938), pp. 385-418.
Text on p. 396 includes:
“We returned to Thule on August 12 and re-embarked our four men. ... the ship then proceeded north, and round Cape Parry into Whale Sound of Baffin and Inglefield. We anchored for a night on the north side of McCormick Bay, and on the 15th a call was made at Robertson Bay for a few hours”.
[JD 12/2/2007]

P.86084.PAT to P.86583.PAT were found wrapped in the card now numbered C446/1/.

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 20/12/2006]