| Summary: | View of people outside a group of Inuit snow houses at Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic, November 7, 1903. Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo #79. Plate has legend: ""Eskimo snow houses Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay Nov 7, 1905. Taken by Captain George Comer (1858-1937), a sealer and whaling captain from East Haddam. He went to sea while still in his teens and was later master of vessels from both New London and New Bedford. Comer participated in voyages involved in polar expeditions and was noted for his studies of Arctic peoples and their environment.
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