Photo #: NH 92131
Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881
Plan of the camp set up on the ice after USS Jeannette
sank, circa 13 June 1881.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume
II, page 582, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 92138
Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881
Sketch by Lieutenant Commander George DeLong, showing "What
I thought I was doing" and "What I was doing"
as USS Jeannette's party approached Kotelnoi Island, north
of Siberia, on 4 September 1881.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume
II, page 735, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 92137
Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881
Sketch of USS Jeannette boats, which the ship's crew dragged
over the ice after she sank north of Siberia in June 1881, and
floated where open water was encountered. The three boats were
commanded by Lieutenant Commander George DeLong, Lieutenant Charles
W. Chipp and Chief Engineer George W. Melville.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume
II, page 693, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 92141
Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881
Woodcut engraved by George T. Andrew after a design by M.J. Burns,
depicting USS Jeannette's boats separating in a gale northeast
of the Lena River Delta, Siberia, on 12 September 1881. The boat
commanded by Lieutenant Commander George DeLong (depicted in
the foreground) landed at the northern end of the Delta. That
commanded by Chief Engineer George W. Melville (background, right)
landed on the Delta's eastern side. The boat commanded by Lieutenant
Charles W. Chipp (background, left) was not heard of again.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume
II, page 751, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 92142
Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881
Woodcut engraved by George T. Andrew after a design by M.J. Burns,
depicting Lieutenant Commander George DeLong and his party wading
ashore from USS Jeannette's first cutter, on the north
end of the Lena River Delta, Siberia, 17 September 1881.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume
II, page 759, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 92146
Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881
Vignette engraving of Lieutenant Commander George DeLong's notebooks
and map, found at the campsite at the head of the Lena River
Delta, Siberia, where his men had died of starvation during October-November
1881.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume
II, page 800, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 92144
Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881
Facsimile of the next-to-last page of Lieutenant Commander George
DeLong's journal, covering 21-24 October 1881, as his party was
dying of starvation at the head of the Lena River Delta, Siberia.
Numbered days reflect the time since USS Jeannette was
abandoned in the ice north of Siberia.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume
II, page 798, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
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Photo #: NH 92145
Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881
Facsimile of the last page of Lieutenant Commander George DeLong's
journal, covering 25-30 October 1881, as his party was dying
of starvation at the head of the Lena River Delta, Siberia. Numbered
days reflect the time since USS Jeannette was abandoned
in the ice north of Siberia.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume
II, page 799, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 92152
"Plan of the Last Camp, Showing the Position in which the
Bodies were Found."
Plan of the final camp of Lieutenant Commander George DeLong
and his men from the Arctic exploration ship Jeannette,
in the Lena River Delta, Siberia. All members of the party perished
there in October-November 1881. Their bodies were found the following
March.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume
II, page 854, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 92153
"Finding the Bodies of Captain De Long and his Companions."
Chief Engineer George Melville discovers the bodies of Lieutenant
Commander George DeLong, Passed Assistant Surgeon James M. Ambler
and Seaman Ah Sam, in the Lena River Delta, Siberia, on 23 March
1882. The three men had died in October or early November 1881.
Woodcut engraved by George T. Andrew after a design by Captain
Gronbeck, copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...",
Volume II, page 857, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 92154
"Monument Hill, Lena Delta."
Where the remains of Jeannette expedition leader Lieutenant
Commander George DeLong and his men were laid to rest, after
their bodies were discovered in March 1882. This high ground,
marked by a cross, was near where they had perished in October-November
1881.
Engraving copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...",
Volume II, page 869, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 92122
Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881
Cairn tomb on Monument Hill, Lena Delta, Siberia, where the bodies
of Lieutenant Commander George W. DeLong, USN, the expedition
commander, and those who perished with him were laid to rest
in 1882.
Tinted lithograph after a drawing by A. Larsen, copied from "The
Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume II, Frontispiece, edited
by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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