IDNO

P.86572.PAT

Description

Head and shoulders portrait of the captain of the Isbjørn rubbing his eye. The rigging of the Isbjørn is in the background.

Place

N America; Arctic; Canada; Nunavut; northeast Baffin Island; ?Cape Adair [North West Territories]

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Paterson, Thomas Thompson

Date

14 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 14.”
“498 to 506. Whalesound, Herbert Island & Northumberland Island.”
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. 408 includes:
“We anchored that night at Omega Bay, where there are some huts of the whaler period, and at daylight on the 7th steamed away to Maud Harbour. It was overcast and the day grew worse, and, by the time we reached Maud Harbour, some five hours later, it was half snowing, half raining, and sun observations were out of the question. Our luck had failed at last; we could not spare even one more day, and reluctantly we left in the afternoon in order to log the distance down to Cape Adair, and then square away across Baffin Bay to Godhavn.” [JD 8/2/2007]

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 7/2/2007]