View in the Fiord of What May Be Termed a Jam of Icebergs

View in the Fiord of What May Be Termed a Jam of Icebergs

Bound volume

John L. Dunmore

Maker
American, 1833–1897

George P. Critcherson

Maker
American, 1823–1892

View in the Fiord of What May Be Termed a Jam of Icebergs

The Arctic Regions: Illustrated with Photographs Taken on an Art Expedition to Greenland


July 1869
Albumen silver print
Image: 10 5/16 × 13 9/16 in. (26.2 × 34.5 cm)
Mount: 19 × 24 1/4 in. (48.2 × 61.6 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1979.0071.0008
Inscriptions Printed on mount on recto, BC: No. 43. View in the Fiord of what may be termed a Jam of Icebergs. This is a scene in a Fiord after an awful discharge of the Glacier, when an immense number of Bergs \ were thrown off, completely filling the Fiord, which was some six or seven miles long and four wide.
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