Visions of the Antarctic back when it was mostly penguins with almost no scientists at all. Illustrations from Frederick A. Cook’s “Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898–1899.” The author was part of the Belgica expedition. One of his fellow explorers was Roald Amundsen who became the first man to reach the South Pole a few years later.

Plates (llustrations) from books 3 Minutes
Frontispiece. © 1899 F. A. Cook. Osgood Art Colortype Company, Chicago and New York. Page 10 of Frederick A. Cook’s Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899; a narrative of the voyage of the “Belgica” among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the South pole. Published in 1900 in New York by Doubleday and McClure. Collections of the Cornell University Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032358446/page/n9/mode/1up
Doctor Frederick A. Cook. Page 167 of Frederick A. Cook’s Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899; a narrative of the voyage of the “Belgica” among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the South pole. Published in 1900 in New York by Doubleday and McClure. Collections of the Cornell University Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032358446/page/n167/mode/1up
Weddell Sea Leopards of Belgica Strait. (Leptonychotes Weddelli). Page 184 of Frederick A. Cook’s Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899; a narrative of the voyage of the “Belgica” among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the South pole. Published in 1900 in New York by Doubleday and McClure. Collections of the Cornell University Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032358446/page/n184/mode/1up
Penguins – A Family Gathering on the Pack-ice. Page 194 of Frederick A. Cook’s Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899; a narrative of the voyage of the “Belgica” among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the South pole. Published in 1900 in New York by Doubleday and McClure. Collections of the Cornell University Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032358446/page/n194/mode/1up
A Tabular Iceberg, Seen at the Pack-Edge in the South Pacific. About 200 Feet High. Page 265 of Frederick A. Cook’s Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899; a narrative of the voyage of the “Belgica” among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the South pole. Published in 1900 in New York by Doubleday and McClure. Collections of the Cornell University Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032358446/page/n265/mode/1up
Eight Successive Phases of an Exhibit of Aurora Australis, March 19, 1898. Page 327 of Frederick A. Cook’s Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899; a narrative of the voyage of the “Belgica” among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the South pole. Published in 1900 in New York by Doubleday and McClure. Collections of the Cornell University Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032358446/page/n327/mode/1up
The Ross Seal with Trachea Inflated. (Ommatophoca rossii). Page 396 of Frederick A. Cook’s Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899; a narrative of the voyage of the “Belgica” among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the South pole. Published in 1900 in New York by Doubleday and McClure. Collections of the Cornell University Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/cu31924032358446/page/n396/mode/1up
Penguins on a Sea-worn Iceberg Resembling a Whale. Page 255 of Frederick A. Cook’s Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899; a narrative of the voyage of the “Belgica” among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the South pole. Published in 1900 in New York by Doubleday and McClure. Collections of the Cornell University Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. Internet Archive via the Public Domain Review. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/through-the-first-antarctic-night-1900/?utm_source=newsletter
Twilight amid the Antarctic Ice. Osgood Art Colortype Company, Chicago and New York. Page 471 of Frederick A. Cook’s Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899; a narrative of the voyage of the “Belgica” among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the South pole. Published in 1900 in New York by Doubleday and McClure. Collections of the Cornell University Library. Artwork in the public domain due to age. Internet Archive via the Public Domain Review. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/through-the-first-antarctic-night-1900/?utm_source=newsletter

These images are from scanned versions of two different copies of the same edition of the same book. For reasons that I don’t really understand, they would print some copies all with black and white illustrations and others with a few in color.

I looked up most of these over on the Internet Archive but I got the idea from the Public Domain Review article as it was they who found it.

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