Distant view of houses, dock and figures on rocksby the water, Tasuissak, Greenland

People:

Robert Edwin Peary (photographer)

Title:

Distant view of houses, dock and figures on rocksby the water, Tasuissak, Greenland

Date:

1894

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 9.3 x 11.9 cm secondary support: 11.8 x 20.1 cm sheet: 9.3 x 11.9 cm

Reference number:

PH1985:0968

Inscription:

inscribed - -Tasuissak (?) 73° 24'N.Lat.- / The mostnortherly permanent habitation/ of Europ [word crossed out] white people inthe world/ 2½in [crossed outè in red ink]/ Tasuissak (?) [crossed out] 9inpencil, in unknown hand, on mount, recto, UC,LL); The most Northerlysettlement in/ the world with permanent/ civilized inhabitants/ No.16 [numbercrossed out in red ink] Pt.3 CW1 (?) (in brown ink, in unknown hand, on mount,recto, L + R sides); reduce to 3 3/16in (w) x 2 3/8in (h)/ 310 (in red ink, inunknown hand, on mount, recto, UL,CL, side LR); 97922/ 126 (in pencil, inunknown hand, on mount, verso, C); 243 (in blue ink, in unknown hand, onmount, verso, UL)

Location:

Tasuissak ?; Greenland;

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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