Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador


Dennis Cole giving Jonathan Cilley a haircut on deck, 1891

Dennis Cole giving Jonathan Cilley a haircut on deck, 1891
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The expedition members maintained a good grooming regimen during the voyage.

In this photograph, Jonathan Prince Cilley Jr., class of 1891, from Rockland, gets a haircut and shave from shipmate Dennis Cole, class of 1888, from Fryeburg.

Cole was the go-to man for shipboard grooming. In his journal entry for July 1st, Fred Simonton, class of 1891, of Rockland, writes, "Dennis Cole does the barber act and cuts the hair of the two Hunts, Rice, Young and Lincoln, also the whiskers of the latter much to the satisfaction of the rest of the boys."

Jonathan Cilley went on to record his experiences in Labrador in the book Bowdoin Boys in Labrador: An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department, published in the 1890s through the Rockland Publishing Company.

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