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Photo # NH 52001:  Jeannette enters the Arctic ice, 6 September 1881

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- The 1880s --

Jeannette Arctic Expedition, 1879-1881 --
The Expedition Begins, 8 July - 6 September 1879


This page features all the views we have related to the first stage of the Jeannette Arctic exploration expedition, as the ship steamed northward from San Francisco and entered the Arctic ice.

For a textual overview and selected images concerning the entire Jeannette Expedition, and links to comprehensive coverage of our pictorial holdings on its other aspects, see:

  • Jeannette Arctic Expedition, 1879-1881.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 52004

    USS Jeannette
    (1879-1881)

    Engraving of the ship underway in San Francisco Bay, California, circa 8 July 1879.
    Note that she is depicted flying the U.S. Yacht Ensign.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 127KB; 740 x 505 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52003

    USS Jeannette
    (1879-1881)

    Engraving after a sketch by H.A. Ogden, depicting Jeannette leaving San Francisco, California, on 8 July 1879 to begin her Arctic expedition.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 221KB; 740 x 540 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92112

    "Ounalaska" (Unalaska) Island, Alaska


    With USS Jeannette in the harbor, while she was en route to the Arctic, August 1879. Note the kayak underway in the right foreground.
    Engraving copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume I, page 84, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 133KB; 740 x 560 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 92113

    "St. Michael's" (St. Michael), Alaska


    View of the village when visited by USS Jeannette in August 1879, at the start of her Arctic exploring expedition.
    Engraving copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume I, page 89, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 420 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 52001

    Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


    "Entering the Ice"
    Engraving by George T. Andrew after a design by M.J. Burns, copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume I, page 117, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884. It depicts USS Jeannette entering the Arctic Ice, near Herald Island (about 72N, 175W), on 6 September 1879.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 153KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     

    For a textual overview and selected images concerning the entire Jeannette Expedition, and links to comprehensive coverage of our pictorial holdings on its other aspects, see:

  • Jeannette Arctic Expedition, 1879-1881.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


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    Page made 19 October 2003