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Description
A crowd waves to Donald B. MacMillan and his crew on the ship Bowdoin, bound for Labrador and Baffin Island.
This expedition set up a scientific station at Anetalak Bay and established the MacMillan-Moravian Eskimo School at Nain, Labrador. The Bowdoin returned after 12 months.
About This Item
- Title: Crowd seeing Donald B. MacMillan off, Wiscasset, 1927
- Creation Date: 1927
- Subject Date: 1927
- Location: Wiscasset, Lincoln County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 8.3 cm x 10.8 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1949, 2005.061.16209
- Collection: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Arctic exploration
- Arrivals & departures
- Bowdoin (Ship)
- Expeditions
- Explorers
- MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970--Travel
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