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3 men raising their glasses to toast the Queen
Your Hostess
Your Hostess
When we all 6 men grabbed at once, we had to give way to the ice
We sail on the last day of our sea voyage. August 10
We force ourselves to make a way north through the ice
Waiting
At two o’clock the palace gates are open, and the waiting continues in the different rooms above stairs.
Visit to an Eskimo tent on Cape Bille
View from the Eagle's Nest to the south (2)
View from the Eagle's Nest to the south
Uphill and downhill
Two men talking
Two men talking
Through uneven ice near the west coast. 23 September 1888
Thor in Torshavn
Then the master of the house came out of the tent
The Vestmanna Islands and the Eyafjallajökull near Sunset
The Thyra
The sudden stop in front of an abyss
The southern part of Vestfirdir
The skis used by the expedition, from above, seen from the side and on average
The skinning of young folding caps on an ice floe
The Rat Man
“The old rat-man” and his pets find Brighton too dull in the winter, and come up to London for the season, to mix once more in its streets, where all kinds of horses are driven by as great a variety of men, from the pedler to the powdered-wigged coachman. Cable-cars and trolleys would be sadly out of place in London, and horseless carriages would be a calamity. There should be no need to go faster than a horse can trot, and the best way of all is to walk.
The Jason makes its way through the ice
The island of Kutdleck and Cape Tordenskjold
The first encounter with the ice in 1882
The farewell of the kayakers at Cape Bille
The boat of the expedition
The boat is pulled across the ice
The bear stops and looks at us
The attachment of the skis over a Löpar boot
Sverdrup's night watch on July 20
Sunday Morning near Stanhope Gate
Sunday is Hyde Park’s day “At Home,” and in the shape of a blue sky she sends her invitation to all London, and her popularity is easily shown by the number and variety of her friends. By long odds the best-looking exhibit is to be seen during church-parade. It extends from Hyde Park Corner to Stanhope Gate, and consists of the well-to-do, most of whom probably first came to the park with their nurses and a little later with their tutors, and they now come grown up and with white hair to pay their respects to the good doctor of their childhood. They form what is distinctly a Sunday gathering, and one as serious as a wedding. Seldom a loud voice is heard. There is a feeling of rest throughout the whole scene, and it is impossible to be there without entering into the spirit of it.
Soldiers 12th Century
Soldiers - 12 th Century
From Harleian Roll, Y. 6. The Life of Saint Guthlac. Date, about the close of the twelfth century. The figures wear the tunic, hauberk of chain-mail, and square-topped helmets, of which one only has the nasal. The triangular shields are suspended round the neck by the guige : their ornaments are mere fanciful patterns, not heraldic. No armour appears to be provided for the lower part of the figures.
Small Wigs and Big Fees
The greatest variety of expressions are to be seen in the audiences that come together at the law courts. There is the never-changing face of the judge, and the ever-changing face of the witness rocking from side to side in his box, and there are the black-robed barristers with small wigs and big fees, and pale law students crowding in at the doors and filling the passage-ways; and in front of the long table that is covered with papers and high hats sit those most interested in what is going on—care-worn parents and women thickly veiled.
Sleigh of the expedition
She was comparatively young, had a sympathetic appearance
Sergeant Charley
...also the recruiting sergeants, among them Sergeant Charley, the best known of all. He has stood at the corner of the National Gallery for many years, and has probably talked more country boys into Her Majesty’s service, consoled more weeping mothers, and cheered more disappointed maidens than any other man in the British army. There is no better place in which Sergeant Charley can operate than Trafalgar Square—or from which the stranger can begin London
Second Great Seal of King Richard I
Second Great Seal of Richard I. Drawn from impressions in the British Museum : Harl. Charter, 43, C. 31, and Select Seals, xvi. 1; and Carlton Ride Seals, H 17. The armour, though differently expressed from that of the first seal, is probably intended to represent the same fabric ; namely, interlinked chain-mail. The tunic is still of a length which seems curiously ill-adapted to the adroit movements of a nimble warrior. The shield of the monarch is one of the most striking monuments of the Herald's art: the vague ornament of Richard's earlier shield has given place to the Three Lions Passant Gardant so familiar to us all in the royal arms of the present day. The king wears the plain goad spur, and is armed with the great double-edged sword, characteristic of the period. The saddle is an excellent example of the War-saddle of this date.
Seals! The captain on the lookout
Seals in sight
Samuel Balto. Ole Ravna
Reykjavik with Iceland's only country road
Profile of lady
Profile of lady
Polar bear and flip-up cap
Phil May
The fact that Phil May is a prophet in his own country should alone clear Englishmen of the suspicion that they are slow to see fun. On an Englishman’s love of fair play and good sport no suspicion has ever rested. It is the most attractive thing about him, and it is only natural that the greatest assortment of good-natured people are to be found at the Derby. I had already met them in May’s drawings, and I was prepared to find the good-nature contagious. Last year a party on a coach opposite the Royal box and a policeman, who looked after that particular part of the course, drank champagne out of the same bottle.
Patiently Listening
Patiently Listening
Outside the pit entrance
Nowhere is caste more noticeable than in a London audience. A little board fence divides the ground-floor of a theatre into orchestra stalls and a pit. It would cost you ten shillings less and your social position to sit on the wrong side of this fence. It does not follow that sitting on the right side of it assures your position. But it does give you an uninterrupted view of the stage. No hats are worn, and that alone makes it worth extra charge. There is, in most of the theatres, room for your knees, and in some, additional room for the man who goes out between the acts, and people who arrive after the curtain is up. A London audience is brilliant. Everyone is in evening dress, and the audience is often more entertaining than the play. This is especially true on a first night. At such times the pit is watched most anxiously by the management, as the success of the piece generally depends on their verdict. It has often occurred to me, when I have seen them on a stormy night forming a line on the pavement outside the pit entrance, taking it all seriously enough to stand there for hours before the doors were opened, that by letting them inside the management might improve their spirits, and they in their turn might be more gentle.
Outside Morley's
Outside Morley's
Our wooden snow goggles
Our life in the drift ice
Our first landing site on the East Coast Greenland
Our Faroese Lootse in his national costume
On the plain
On the east coast of Greenland, 1882
On Bond Street
On Bond Street
Old-style snowshoeing
Old Norwegian ski. (Based on a drawing from the year 1644.)
Old folding cap man
Norwegian truger or rag shoe
Norwegian snowshoer