Edward Steichen, Nell (Steichen's Granddaughter) In a Daisy Field, ca. 1932, silver print.

Eadweard Muybridge, Yosemite National Park, 1870, albumen print.

Yousuf Karsh, Portrait of Pearl S. Buck (Sai Zhenzhu), 1959, gelatin silver print.

Hugo Adolf Bernatzik, Solomon Island Fisherman on Beach, 1937, gelatin silver print.

Associated Press Wire Photographer, Senator Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn at Army–McCarthy Hearings, April 22, 1954, gelatin silver print.

Dick Arentz, Bedford Co., Pa, 1989, platinum palladium print.

Unknown Photographer, The Doors (Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, and Robby Krieger), 1969, gelatin silver print.

Arnold Eagle, The Moor's Pavane (José Limón Dance Company, Detroit Institute of Arts [José Limón, Lucas Hoving and Betty Jones]), 1950, gelatin silver print.

Cecil Beaton, Mrs. Wallis Simpson, London, 1936, gelatin silver print.

In 1934, Rev. Bernard Hubbard, the “Glacier Priest,” explored Alaska’s Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. This is a photograph of Father Hubbard and his lead dog Katma wearing improvised gas masks while standing by a smoking volcanic crater. Photograph provided to the press October 10, 1934.

The Windward and Erik were two vessels with long Arctic careers. Both vessels were together in the Arctic in August 1901 in support of Peary’s 1898-1902 expedition.

The Windward and Erik

When not in the Arctic, Robert E. Peary, of the Bowdoin Class of 1877, shed his furs and donned formal attire, as he spent a good deal of his time courting donors to support his expeditions.

In 1937 the Russians launched an expedition in which a four-man crew was left on a large, floating expanse of ice near the North Pole. The men studied atmospheric phenomena. Here the crew is boarding the support vessel. The ice drifted and in 1938 the men were picked up off the East Greenland coast.

In the 1800s Labrador enjoyed a huge cod fishery. This Keystone View Company image of fish nets drying in a southern Labrador coastal community was part of a commercial Geography Unit used by schools.

Umberto Nobile was a famous Arctic explorer and engineer who designed and flew the airship Norge, which flew from Svalbard to Alaska and over the North Pole in 1926. He also designed and flew the airship Italia, which crashed on its third voyage in 1928, killing some of the crew and injuring Nobile.

A member of the 1937-38 Russian expedition that used a floating expanse of ice as a base of operations is going about routine camp life, in this case collecting ice and water in a kettle.