Advertising material, either publicising accounts of exploration or using Polar imagery

Date:
Late 19th century - early 20th century
Reference:
MS.7489
Part of:
Polar Exploration: Townsend Thorndike Collection
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Description

Comprises the following:

  • MS.7489/1: A'Top of the World in Motion , motion picture and lecture by Beverley B. Dobbs. Late 19th century - early 20th century.
  • MS.7489/2: The Carnegie Museum Alaska-Siberia Motion Pictures. Early 20th century.
  • MS.7489/3: Robert Bartlett, lecture on Newfoundland sealing industry. Late 19th century - early 20th century.
  • MS.7489/4: Advertisement for the "Explorer" bicycle by Rogers Peet department stores, endorsed by the explorer Anthony Fiala (b.1869). Early 20th century.
  • MS.7489/5: Pears soap advertisement. 1909.
  • MS.7489/6: International Correspondence Schools advertisement. Late 19th century - early 20th century.
  • MS.7489/7: Player's Navy Mixture tobacco advertisement. Late 19th century - early 20th century.
  • MS.7489/8: Burroughs Wellcome "Tabloid" Medical Equipment advertisement, stating it to have been carried by Peary and Shackleton. c.1910.
  • MS.7489/9: The Boston Ice Company promotional card. Late 19th century - early 20th century.
  • MS.7489/10: Cutting with drawing of polar bear on one side and advertisement for furs on the other, company concerned not identified. Late 19th century - early 20th century.
  • MS.7489/11: Drawing of a man driving a sledge pulled by two polar bears, cut from a colour periodical. Late 19th century - early 20th century.

    • Publication/Creation

    Late 19th century - early 20th century

    Physical description

    1 file

    Finding aids

    Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

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