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Expeditions and exploration

 

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Contents
Introduction
1Introduction to nineteenth century scientific expeditions
2Expeditionary Art: An Appraisal
3Surveying
Canada
4Humphrey Lloyd Hime: Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition (1857-1858)
5Charles Horetzky: Surveyor and photographer of British Columbia
6Joseph Burr Tyrrell: Expedition to the barren lands (1893)
Canada / USA
7Northwest Boundary Survey (1857-1862) / British North American Boundary Commission
USA
8Landscape surveys of the American West
9William Henry Jackson: Equipment required for wet-plate photography (1869)
10Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel - Clarence King (1867-1869)
11Timothy O'Sullivan: The sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev.
12John Carbutt: Union Pacific Rail Road, Excursion to the 100th Meridian (October 1866)
13U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey - Ferdinand V. Hayden (1867-1869)
14Survey west of the 100th Parallel - George Montague Wheeler (1869-1879)
15William Henry Jackson: The Scenery of the Yellowstone, 1871 [Series]
16Timothy O'Sullivan: Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (1871-1874)
17River explorations - John Wesley Powell (1869-1872)
18Edward S. Curtis: Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)
Mexico
19John L. Stephens: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843)
20Désiré Charnay: Cités et Ruines Americaines. Atlas (1863)
21Dr. Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon: Archaeological research in Mexico (1870s)
22Alfred Percival Maudslay: Mexico: Chiapas: Palenque
Panama
23John Moran: Darien Expedition (1871)
South America
24HMS Topaze and Easter Island, Chile (1868)
25Albert Frisch: The Amazon (1867-1871)
26Jean Chaffanjon: The Venezuelan Amazon
27George Miller Dyott: Expeditions in Amazonia
Asia
28Eliphant Brown: Daguerreotypist on Commodore Perry's voyage to the China Seas and Japan (1850s)
29Luigi Montabone: Ricordi del viaggio in Persia della missione italiana (1862)
30Henri Sauvaire: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain par M. Le Duc de Luynes
31Philip Henry Egerton: Journal of a Tour Through Spiti, To The Frontier of Chinese Thibet, With Photographic Illustrations (1864)
32Adolf-Nikolay Erazmovich Boiarski: Russian Scientific-Commercial Expedition to China (1874-1875)
33Émile Gsell: Cambodia: Angkor
34Captain Edward Francis Chapman: Photographs of Yarkand and Kashgar (1873-1874)
35Daniel David Veth: Midden-Sumatra Photographie-Album (1877-1879)
36Jean Demmeni: Borneo expedition to Central-Borneo led by Dr. A.W. Nieuwenhuis (1896-1897)
37John William Lindt: British New Guinea Expedition led by led by Sir Peter Scratchley (1885)
38Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea (1903-1904)
39V.S. Adrianov: Mongolian expedition of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (1879-1880)
40Yvette Borup Andrews: Across Mongolian plains (1921)
41Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little Known China (1918)
Oceania
42Bruno L. Hamel: An Album of Photographic Views (1859)
43German Transit of Venus Expedition, Terror Cove, Auckland Islands (1874-1875)
44John William Lindt: Picturesque New Guinea (1887)
45Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition (1891-1892)
Middle East
46Palestine Exploration Fund
47Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem
48Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai
49American Palestine Exploration Society
50Louis de Clercq: Voyage en Orient (1860)
51Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East (1862)
52Duc de Luynes: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain (1868-74)
Nubia (South Egypt / Northern Sudan)
53The Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan (1905-1907)
54Photographing in the interior of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel (1906)
55Photographing the Temple of Amun and Amunhotep III at Soleb (1907)
Africa
56Expeditions within Africa
57Charles Guillain: Voyage a la Côte Orientale d'Afrique (1856)
58John Kirk: David Livingstone - The Zambezi Expedition (1858-1864)
59James Chapman: Chapman Expedition in South Africa (1862-1864)
60Alexandrine Tinne (1835-1869)
61Royal Geographical Society Expedition: Nyassa
62Edouard Foà: Africa
63László Almásy: Expeditions in the Sahara (1930s)
Europe
64Bisson frères: Mt. Blanc (1860s)
65The Fox Surveying Expedition (1860-1861)
66Josef Székely: Austro-Hungarian expedition to northern Albania, Kosova and Macedonia (1863)
67Sten Bergman Expedition to Iceland (1909)
68Marie Antoinette Czaplicka: Yenesei River Expedition, Siberia, Russia (1914-15)
Arctic
69Letter from John Herschel to Daguerre (1 August 1939)
70Richard Beard: British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition (1845-1848)
71Richard Beard: Sir John Franklin
72Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield: Inglefield Expedition (1850s)
73Dr. Isaac I. Hayes: [Greenland Expedition] (ca 1859)
74William Bradford, John Dunmore and George Critcherson: The Arctic Regions (1873)
75Thomas Mitchell: The British Arctic Expedition (1875-1876)
76Richard Basso: Graf Wilczek'sche Polar-Expedition (1882-1883)
77The Greely Arctic Exploring Expedition (1881-1884)
78Budtz Müller & Co.: The schooner FYLLA's Greenland voyage (1884)
79Prince Roland Bonaparte's ethnographic expedition to Lapland (1884)
80Fridtjof Nansen: First crossing of Greenland (1888)
81Robert E. Peary: Greenland Expedition (1893-1895)
82Nils Strindberg: S.A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition (1897)
83Umberto Nobile expedition to the North Pole with the airship Italia (1928)
84Roald Amundsen: Amundsen's South Pole expedition (1910-1912)
85Herbert Ponting: British Antarctic Expedition - Scott - Terra Nova (1910-1913)
86Frank Hurley: Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1913)
87Frank Hurley: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917)
Pack animals
88Pack animals - mules, donkeys, burros and horses
89L.A. Huffman: The Rage of Huffman and the Calmness of Nig (1883)
Dark tents and dark boxes
90Contemporary accounts of nineteenth century dark tents
91Dark tents and dark boxes
92Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works
93William Henry Jackson: Photographing in High Places
94John Burke: Fixing the Negative
National Geographic
95National Geographic photographers on assignment
Field note books
96Smithsonian Field Book Project
Around the world
97The travels of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (1871-1872)
Fiction and the reality of travel
98Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872?
Expeditions and exploration in the twentieth century
99Introduction to twentieth century scientific expeditions
Space exploration
100Space exploration
Photographers
V.S. Adrianov, Yvette Borup Andrews (1891-1959), James W. Bagley (1881-1947), Ivan Ivanovich Baluev (1905-), Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), Isabella Bird (1831-1904), Auguste Rosalie Bisson (1826-1900), Charles Bodmer (1809-1893), Adolf-Nikolay Erazmovich Boiarski, Eliphalet Brown, Richard Buchta (1845-1894), Wilhelm Burger (1844-1920), John Carbutt (1832-1905), Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815-1897), Rafael Castro y Ordóñez (1834-1865), Jean Chaffanjon (1854-1913), James Chapman (1831-1872), Désiré Charnay (1828-1915), George P. Critcherson (1823-1892), Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952), Louis de Clercq (1836-1901), Agnia Pavlovna Dinness, William Thomas Domville (1822-1879), S.M. Dudin, Tancrède Dumas (1830-1905), John L. Dunmore, Dunmore & Critcherson, George Miller Dyott (1883-1972), Paul Ehrenreich (1855-1914), Edouard Foà (1861-1901), Charles Guillain (1808-1875), Bruno L. Hamel, Heinrich Harrer (1912-2006), Dr. Isaac I. Hayes (1832-1881), Humphrey Lloyd Hime (1833-1903), Charles Horetzky (1838-1900), Frank Hurley (1885-1962), Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), William Illingworth (1844-1893), Illingworth & Bill, Edward Augustus Inglefield (1820-1894), William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), John Kirk (1832-1922), Alice D. Le Plongeon, Augustus Le Plongeon (1826-1908), Augustus & Alice D. Le Plongeon, John William Lindt (1845-1926), A.P. Low (1861-1942), George Lowe (1924-2013), Alfred Percival Maudslay (1850-1931), Francis Leopold McClintock (1819-1907), James McDonald, Paul-Émile Miot (1827-1900), Thomas Mitchell, John Moran (1821-1903), Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840-1882), H. Phillips, Herbert G. Ponting, Michael Rockefeller (1938-1961), Vittorio Sella (1859-1943), Nils Strindberg (1872-1897), Josef Székely (1838-1901), Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003), Alexandrine Tinne (1835-1869), Ludovico Tuminello (1824-1907), Max Uhle (1856-1944), Ernst Ule (1854-1915), Daniel David Veth, Dr. David Walker, C. Walter, Bradford Washburn (1910-2007), George White, Ernest Henry Wilson (1876-1930)
     
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Introduction
1Introduction to nineteenth century scientific expeditions
2Expeditionary Art: An Appraisal
3Surveying
Canada
4Humphrey Lloyd Hime: Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition (1857-1858)
5Charles Horetzky: Surveyor and photographer of British Columbia
6Joseph Burr Tyrrell: Expedition to the barren lands (1893)
Canada / USA
7Northwest Boundary Survey (1857-1862) / British North American Boundary Commission
USA
8Landscape surveys of the American West
9William Henry Jackson: Equipment required for wet-plate photography (1869)
10Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel - Clarence King (1867-1869)
11Timothy O'Sullivan: The sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev.
12John Carbutt: Union Pacific Rail Road, Excursion to the 100th Meridian (October 1866)
13U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey - Ferdinand V. Hayden (1867-1869)
14Survey west of the 100th Parallel - George Montague Wheeler (1869-1879)
15William Henry Jackson: The Scenery of the Yellowstone, 1871 [Series]
16Timothy O'Sullivan: Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (1871-1874)
17River explorations - John Wesley Powell (1869-1872)
18Edward S. Curtis: Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)
Mexico
19John L. Stephens: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843)
20Désiré Charnay: Cités et Ruines Americaines. Atlas (1863)
21Dr. Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon: Archaeological research in Mexico (1870s)
22Alfred Percival Maudslay: Mexico: Chiapas: Palenque
Panama
23John Moran: Darien Expedition (1871)
South America
24HMS Topaze and Easter Island, Chile (1868)
25Albert Frisch: The Amazon (1867-1871)
26Jean Chaffanjon: The Venezuelan Amazon
27George Miller Dyott: Expeditions in Amazonia
Asia
28Eliphant Brown: Daguerreotypist on Commodore Perry's voyage to the China Seas and Japan (1850s)
29Luigi Montabone: Ricordi del viaggio in Persia della missione italiana (1862)
30Henri Sauvaire: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain par M. Le Duc de Luynes
31Philip Henry Egerton: Journal of a Tour Through Spiti, To The Frontier of Chinese Thibet, With Photographic Illustrations (1864)
32Adolf-Nikolay Erazmovich Boiarski: Russian Scientific-Commercial Expedition to China (1874-1875)
33Émile Gsell: Cambodia: Angkor
34Captain Edward Francis Chapman: Photographs of Yarkand and Kashgar (1873-1874)
35Daniel David Veth: Midden-Sumatra Photographie-Album (1877-1879)
36Jean Demmeni: Borneo expedition to Central-Borneo led by Dr. A.W. Nieuwenhuis (1896-1897)
37John William Lindt: British New Guinea Expedition led by led by Sir Peter Scratchley (1885)
38Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea (1903-1904)
39V.S. Adrianov: Mongolian expedition of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (1879-1880)
40Yvette Borup Andrews: Across Mongolian plains (1921)
41Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little Known China (1918)
Oceania
42Bruno L. Hamel: An Album of Photographic Views (1859)
43German Transit of Venus Expedition, Terror Cove, Auckland Islands (1874-1875)
44John William Lindt: Picturesque New Guinea (1887)
45Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition (1891-1892)
Middle East
46Palestine Exploration Fund
47Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem
48Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai
49American Palestine Exploration Society
50Louis de Clercq: Voyage en Orient (1860)
51Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East (1862)
52Duc de Luynes: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain (1868-74)
Nubia (South Egypt / Northern Sudan)
53The Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan (1905-1907)
54Photographing in the interior of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel (1906)
55Photographing the Temple of Amun and Amunhotep III at Soleb (1907)
Africa
56Expeditions within Africa
57Charles Guillain: Voyage a la Côte Orientale d'Afrique (1856)
58John Kirk: David Livingstone - The Zambezi Expedition (1858-1864)
59James Chapman: Chapman Expedition in South Africa (1862-1864)
60Alexandrine Tinne (1835-1869)
61Royal Geographical Society Expedition: Nyassa
62Edouard Foà: Africa
63László Almásy: Expeditions in the Sahara (1930s)
Europe
64Bisson frères: Mt. Blanc (1860s)
65The Fox Surveying Expedition (1860-1861)
66Josef Székely: Austro-Hungarian expedition to northern Albania, Kosova and Macedonia (1863)
67Sten Bergman Expedition to Iceland (1909)
68Marie Antoinette Czaplicka: Yenesei River Expedition, Siberia, Russia (1914-15)
Arctic
69Letter from John Herschel to Daguerre (1 August 1939)
70Richard Beard: British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition (1845-1848)
71Richard Beard: Sir John Franklin
72Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield: Inglefield Expedition (1850s)
73Dr. Isaac I. Hayes: [Greenland Expedition] (ca 1859)
74William Bradford, John Dunmore and George Critcherson: The Arctic Regions (1873)
75Thomas Mitchell: The British Arctic Expedition (1875-1876)
76Richard Basso: Graf Wilczek'sche Polar-Expedition (1882-1883)
77The Greely Arctic Exploring Expedition (1881-1884)
78Budtz Müller & Co.: The schooner FYLLA's Greenland voyage (1884)
79Prince Roland Bonaparte's ethnographic expedition to Lapland (1884)
80Fridtjof Nansen: First crossing of Greenland (1888)
81Robert E. Peary: Greenland Expedition (1893-1895)
82Nils Strindberg: S.A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition (1897)
83Umberto Nobile expedition to the North Pole with the airship Italia (1928)
84Roald Amundsen: Amundsen's South Pole expedition (1910-1912)
85Herbert Ponting: British Antarctic Expedition - Scott - Terra Nova (1910-1913)
86Frank Hurley: Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1913)
87Frank Hurley: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917)
Pack animals
88Pack animals - mules, donkeys, burros and horses
89L.A. Huffman: The Rage of Huffman and the Calmness of Nig (1883)
Dark tents and dark boxes
90Contemporary accounts of nineteenth century dark tents
91Dark tents and dark boxes
92Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works
93William Henry Jackson: Photographing in High Places
94John Burke: Fixing the Negative
National Geographic
95National Geographic photographers on assignment
Field note books
96Smithsonian Field Book Project
Around the world
97The travels of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (1871-1872)
Fiction and the reality of travel
98Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872?
Expeditions and exploration in the twentieth century
99Introduction to twentieth century scientific expeditions
Space exploration
100Space exploration

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