This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
The Broken Household and Arctic Expeditions
Narrative blends a family elegy of three children lost with an official report by Dr. Kane on the second Grinnell expedition. It details long, perilous Arctic exploration from Smith's Sound to Greenland, hardships, mutiple winters, scurvy, frostbite, and near-heroic endurance amid icebound passages and rescue efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith’s Sound
Greenland
Atlantic
America
Kane
Grinnell
Sir John Franklin
Secretary of the Navy
Upernavik
Mellville Bay
Cape Hatherton
Littleton Island
Francis
Hayes
Messrs
Brooks
McGeary
Bonsall
Morton
Washington
Peabody
Peabody Bay
William Morton
Esquimaux
Dr. Ray
Mr. Grinnell
Lancaster Sound
William Baffin
Jones’ Sound
Hakluyt Island
Esquimanx
Mr. Bonsall
Christian Ohlsen
Jefferson Baker
Peter Shubert
Ohlsen
Borden
Cape Alexander
Cape York
Melville Bay
North Greenland
Upernivik
England
Marianne
Goodhaven
Haristene
Smith's Sound
Disco
Arctic
Hartstone
Smith
Jones
Lancaster
Baflin’s Bay