Up to the far north, the better to freeze to death. Depends on how warm your boots are. Visions of the Arctic back when it was the great frontier. Imagery from Alexander Hyde’s 1873 work “The frozen zone and its explorers: a comprehensive history of voyages, travels, adventures, disasters, and discoveries in the Arctic regions: Life in the Realm of Frost.”

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Title page artwork. Page 7 of The frozen zone and its explorers: a comprehensive history of voyages, travels, adventures, disasters, and discoveries in the Arctic regions: Life in the Realm of Frost, co written by Alexander Hyde, A. C. Baldwin, and William Leonard Gage. Published in 1880 by R. W. Bliss and Company (Hartford) and A. L. Bancroft and Company, San Francisco. J. McGoffin engraver after J. Hamilton. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/frozenzoneitsexp01hyde/page/n6/mode/1up
Scene on the Greenland Coast. Page 25 of The frozen zone and its explorers: a comprehensive history of voyages, travels, adventures, disasters, and discoveries in the Arctic regions: Life in the Realm of Frost, co written by Alexander Hyde, A. C. Baldwin, and William Leonard Gage. Published in 1880 by R. W. Bliss and Company (Hartford) and A. L. Bancroft and Company, San Francisco. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/frozenzoneitsexp01hyde/page/25/mode/1up
Freighted Iceberg. Page 82 of The frozen zone and its explorers: a comprehensive history of voyages, travels, adventures, disasters, and discoveries in the Arctic regions: Life in the Realm of Frost, co written by Alexander Hyde, A. C. Baldwin, and William Leonard Gage. Published in 1880 by R. W. Bliss and Company (Hartford) and A. L. Bancroft and Company, San Francisco. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/frozenzoneitsexp01hyde/page/25/mode/1up
Parhelia. Page 115 of The frozen zone and its explorers: a comprehensive history of voyages, travels, adventures, disasters, and discoveries in the Arctic regions: Life in the Realm of Frost, co written by Alexander Hyde, A. C. Baldwin, and William Leonard Gage. Published in 1880 by R. W. Bliss and Company (Hartford) and A. L. Bancroft and Company, San Francisco. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/frozenzoneitsexp01hyde/page/115/mode/1up
Esquimaux Hut. Page 567 of The frozen zone and its explorers: a comprehensive history of voyages, travels, adventures, disasters, and discoveries in the Arctic regions: Life in the Realm of Frost, co written by Alexander Hyde, A. C. Baldwin, and William Leonard Gage. Published in 1880 by R. W. Bliss and Company (Hartford) and A. L. Bancroft and Company, San Francisco. Collections of the Library of Congress. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/frozenzoneitsexp01hyde/page/567/mode/1up

This one I didn’t find by myself. I found a link on the website of rare book dealer James Arsenault who is selling a salesman’s sample used to sell copies of The Frozen Zone and its Explorers. Then I found a scanned version over on the Internet Archive.

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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