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Photo #: NH 92121

Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881


Sketch by Lieutenant Commander George W. DeLong, USN, the expedition commander, showing how summer ice was cut away to permit examination of USS Jeannette's propeller, while she was frozen in the ice north of Siberia, 25 August 1880.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume I, page 429, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.

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3 July 2003