Arctic Collection (page 10)

Orville Wright, Vilhjalmur Stefansson
From left: Orville Wright, Vilhjalmur Stefansson (the Arctic explorer), Katharine Wright and Oswald Short at the Wrights house in Dayton, Ohio. 1922. Date: 1922

Armstrong Whitworth Seaslug ship-to
A technician inspects an Armstrong Whitworth Seaslug ship-to-air missile after it has undergone testing at arctic temperatures in the companys climatic chamber. November 1959. Date: 1959

Ursus maritimus, Polar bear
Part of the collection amassed by Walter Rothschild in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. On display at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Copper mass
This copper block was discovered by Samuel Hearne in the Arctic Circle in 1771. He carried it for a year before presenting it to the Hudsons Bay Company

Whaling boats
A photograph from A Cruise in the Arctic (1888) by Livingstone-Learmonth

Lepus timidus, Mustela erminea and Mustela nivalis
Arctic hare, ermine and least weasel. Mountain hare, stoat and weasel. Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c

Sterna paradisaea, Arctic tern
Plate 72 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 5 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Lepus timidus, Arctic hare
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Stercorarius parasiticus, parasitic jaeger
Plate 272 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Pemmatites, lithistid sponge
This sponge originates from the Permian rocks of the Artic island of Spitzbergen

Papaver nudicaule L, arctic poppy
Papaver nudicaule L. var. rubro-aurantiacum Fisch. Ex DC. Dried specimen taken from the museum herbarium, collected in Russia, 1948

Fossil shells
A selction of Mediterranean and Arctic shells from the Pliocene and Pleistocene crag of East Anglia

A collection of 20 birds eggs
A collection of birds eggs showing different sizes and variations. Specimens held at the Natural History Museum at Tring

Monodon monoceros, narwhal
The skull and a selecton of vertebrae specimens of the narwhal whale, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Sterna paradisaea, Arcitc tern
Plate 250 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Gavia arctica, black-throated diver
Plate 346 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

BARENTS, Willem (1550-1597). Dutch Navigator

Sir John Richardson / 1828
SIR JOHN RICHARDSON Scottish naturalist and Arctic explorer Date: 1787 - 1865

England and America. The visit of her majesty Queen Victoria to the Arctic ship Resolute - December 16th, 1856, to whom this engraving is by special permission respectfully dedicated by her obedient

Secretaire made from the timbers of the British Arctic ship

Dwellings of tribal peoples of Africa, North America and the Arctic regions in the History of Habitation exhibit, Paris Exposition, 1889. Date 1889

Right whaling in Behering Straits & Arctic Ocean with its varieties. Right whaling in Behering Straits & Arctic Ocean with its varieties

Shooting seabirds - Newfoundland
Hunting (Shooting) seabirds amongst the Arctic Ice Floes of Newfoundland, Canada. Date: 1907

Newland area - Siberian Ocean, Russia Date: circa 1910s

Five polar bears on holiday at London Zoo
Visitors to London Zoo in 1911 were attracted to the bear pits where five young performing bears, the property of Doris del Monte of Copenhagen, were spending a weeks holiday

Arctic Bear Hunter
An arctic bear hunter, on top of a mound of snow, searching for the body of the bear he has just shot through the skull. 1930s

St. Johns - Newfoundland - Icebergs and Arctic Ice Floes in the Narrows Date: circa 1910s

Arctic Tern
An Arctic Tern. Date: 1950s

Sami Father and Son Date: circa 1920

Battleship covered in ice, WW1
A battleship covered in ice during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Sami Children - Norway Date: circa 1903

Alaska - Juneau Date: circa 1920

Advert / Cadburys Cocoa
Keeps you warm in an icy climate Date: circa 1890s

Dryas Octopetala (Mountain Avens, White Dryas)
Dryas Octopetala (Mountain Avens, White Dryas, White Dryad), an arctic-alpine flowering plant of the Rosaceae family, with creamy coloured petals. Seen here growing in a rocky setting

Studies of Polar Bears
Pencil studies of Polar Bears by Raymond Sheppard

French travel & transport poster
Amusing poster issued by the French Ministry of Travel and Transport which appears to be advising intrepid aviators to plan their route in advance, or suffer the consequences

British anti-aircraft battery WWII
More heavy snow has fallen in France and the British Expeditionary Force is again contending with Arctic weather conditions during World War II

Polar Bears by (and in) an Arctic pool
Two Polar bears, one in a pool of water revealed by the receding Arctic ice. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Two Polar bears lying in the Arctic snow
Two Polar bears resting in the Arctic snow. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Two Polar bears
Polar bears, one swimming, the other standing on the Arctic ice shelf. Oil painting by Raymond Sheppard

An eskimo Sled
Pencil drawing of an eskimo snow sledge by Raymond Sheppard

Snowy Owl hunting a Hare
A Snowy Owl swoops to catch an Arctic Hare in its talons. Painting by Raymond Sheppard

Eagle chasing an Arctic Hare
An Eagle swoops to catch a fleeing Arctic Hare in its outstretched talons. Watercolour painting by Raymond Sheppard

Pastel sketch of a Polar Bear
A Polar Bear. Pastel drawing by Raymond Sheppard

Whos Afraid by Ethel Parkinson
Two children, wrapped up in eskimo or Inuit style coats and hats play a pleasant game of see saw with a friendly Polar Bear

Multiplication is vexation by Ethel Parkinson
Three large penguins line up to be taught some mathematics by a strict little eskimo child

Walrus and children
Two children, wrapped up charmingly against the cold in white, furry outfits, look fairly sanguine about meeting an enormous walrus. Then again, they are trudging around a glacier on their own

We Are a Merry Family by Ethel Parkinson
Charming illustration showing two Eskimos or Inuit people dancing in a friendly manner with a polar bear in a glacial environment

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