The Steamer in an Open Lead Moored to the Edge of the Ice Field
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The Steamer in an Open Lead Moored to the Edge of the Ice Field
The Arctic Regions: Illustrated with Photographs Taken on an Art Expedition to Greenland
August 1869
Albumen silver print
Image: 10 11/16 × 13 7/8 in. (27.1 × 35.2 cm)
Mount: 19 × 24 1/4 in. (48.2 × 61.6 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1979.0071.0020
Inscriptions Printed on mount on recto, BC: No. 102. The Steamer, in an open lead, moored to the edge of the Ice Field. The Iceberg was about one third of a mile in length, and grounded in about five hundred feet \ of water. Its height above the water was two hundred and seventy-five feet.
