Pictures of icebergs from back when the Arctic was the Great Frontier. Plates taken from Elisha Kent Kane’s “Arctic explorations : the second Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin in the years 1853 to 1855, Volume II” which was published in Philadelphia in 1856.

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“The Water.” page 30. Engraving by Van Ingen and Snyder after a drawing by the author. Contributed by the Museums Victoria. Digitalizing sponsor Atlas of Living Australia. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/arcticexploratiiikane/page/30/mode/2up
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“Detached Ice-Belt.” Page 44. Engraving by Van Ingen and Snyder after a drawing by the author. Contributed by the Museums Victoria. Digitalizing sponsor Atlas of Living Australia. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/arcticexploratiiikane/page/44/mode/2up
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“Ice-Raft.” Page 67. Engraving by Van Ingen and Snyder after a drawing by the author. Contributed by the Museums Victoria. Digitalizing sponsor Atlas of Living Australia. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/arcticexploratiiikane/page/67/mode/2up
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“Berg-Raft.” Page 138. Engraving by Van Ingen and Snyder after a drawing by the author. Contributed by the Museums Victoria. Digitalizing sponsor Atlas of Living Australia. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/arcticexploratiiikane/page/138/mode/2up

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