Inuit children and crew members bringing ice to whaling schooner A.T. Gifford, Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic

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Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5463

Persons

Title

Inuit children and crew members bringing ice to whaling schooner A.T. Gifford, Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic

Supplied	yes

Origin Information

Date Created	1907 to 1909

Parent Item

Mystic Seaport Museum

Connecticut History Illustrated

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

View of Inuit children and crew members of the whaling schooner A.T. Gifford bringing ice to the vessel, Hudson Bay, ca. 1907-1909. The ice is apparently being transported on sleds. The A.T. Gifford can be seen to the right.

Genre

Subject

A.T. Gifford (Schooner)

Geographic Subject

East Haddam (Conn.)

Extent

Source extent: 1 photograph : glassplate negative ; 4 x 5 in.

Held By

Mystic Seaport Museum

Use and Reproduction

Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Photography Department, Mystic Seaport, Mystic.

Note

Note Type	source note
Note	Comer Collection

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Infrastructure

Note Type	local
Note	theme: Lifestyle

Note

Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo 183. The ice was melted during the winter to provide water for cooking and washing. Taken by Captain George Comer (1858-1937), a sealer and whaling captain from East Haddam. He went to sea while still in his teens and was later master of vessels from both New London and New Bedford. Comer participated in voyages involved in polar expeditions and was noted for his studies of Arctic peoples and their environment.

Local Identifier

Accession number: 1963.1767.187

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Inuit children and crew members bringing ice to whaling schooner A.T. Gifford, Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic

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