Castle Berg in Melville Bay, Over 200 Feet High

Castle Berg in Melville Bay, Over 200 Feet High

Bound volume

John L. Dunmore

Maker
American, 1833–1897

George P. Critcherson

Maker
American, 1823–1892

Castle Berg in Melville Bay, Over 200 Feet High

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


August 1869
Albumen silver print
Image: 10 9/16 × 14 13/16 in. (26.8 × 37.7 cm)
Mount: 19 × 24 1/4 in. (48.2 × 61.6 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1979.0071.0017
Inscriptions Printed on mount on recto, BC: No. 98. Castle Berg in Melville Bay over two hundred feet high. The Figure, which is some seventy-five feet from the Base, gives an object to compare with the Berg. \ The Ice in the foreground is about eighteen inches in thickness.
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