Search Results
Keywords: Labrador
Historical Items Showing 3 of 36 View All
Item 29000
Title: Ernest Young leaning on rifle, Labrador, 1819
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
Date: 1891
Media: Photograph
Item 28999
Title: Austin Cary posing with equipment, Labrador, 1891
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
Date: 1891
Media: Photograph
Item 28998
Title: Grand Falls Expedition party, Labrador, 1891
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
Date: 1891
Media: Photograph
Exhibits Showing 2 of 2 View All
Exhibit
Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador
"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.
Exhibit
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner Bowdoin, which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.