GREELY ARCTIC EXPEDITION.


Albumen print cabinet card (8 x 5 inches, 203 x 127 mm), depicting 21 members of the Greely Expedition, stamped to the verso "S.C. Reed, Photographer," 1881, with expedition members named along the mount, minor soiling to mount, and verso.WITH: a small piece of seal leather and an accompanying note, "a piece of the seal leather used as food by the Greely Expedition at Camp Clay, Cape Sabine, Grinnell Island, Arctic Regions—during their last winter 1884," 16 x 25 mm, housed in an envelope addressed to "Oakley Rhinelander Esq."Provenance: [T.J.] Oakley Rhinelander (note to envelope).A large boudoir cabinet card showing 21 members of the "International Polar Expedition," more popularly known as the Greely Expedition, taken in Adolphus Greely's hometown of Newburyport, MA, likely by H.W. Macintosh (although the photograph is stamped "S.C. Reed" to the verso). While two crewmembers set a new "Farthest North" record, only seven of these men would survive the ordeal. With a piece of seal leather from the expedition, a rare survival.