Photo #: NH 92146
Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, 1879-1881
Vignette engraving of Lieutenant Commander George DeLong's notebooks
and map, found at the campsite at the head of the Lena River
Delta, Siberia, where his men had died of starvation during October-November
1881.
Copied from "The Voyage of the Jeannette ...", Volume
II, page 800, edited by Emma DeLong, published in 1884.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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