Album of photographs and sketches relating to arctic voyages
name: label: Collector
content: Cox, Robert S.
place: label: Place
content: Greenland
label: Place
content: Baffin Island (Canada)
label: Place
content: Pond Inlet (Inuit Community)
topic: label: Topic
content: Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The Album was donated by Benton and Elizabeth Cox Leach in 2015.
creator: label: Collector
content: Cox, Robert S.
culture: label: Culture
content: Inuit
label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Drawings (visual works) (pencil on paper)
label: Extent
content: 0.21 Linear feet (1 box)
label: Extent
content: 113 Photographic prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1908-1917
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The album was collected by Elizabeth Cox Leach's father, Robert S. Cox, who worked at the Sailors Snug Harbor (a home for retired sailors) on Staten Island. It is assumed that the album once belonged to a resident of the Sailor's Snug Harbor.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2016-09
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- 1900-1920
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Album of photographs and sketches relating to voyages, primarily in the arctic. Includes photographs from the steamer Neptune's 1917 rescue of Donald MacMillan and other members of the Crocker Land Relief Expedition, as well as the Northern Ventures Expedition, ca 1912. Photographs depict Inuit men, women, and children from Greenland and Baffin Island, sailors, sea ice, arctic and marine mammals, and walrus and narwhal ivory. Sketches are portraits, most likely of other sailors or expedition members.