| Summary: | A group of Inuit, described as a family, sit inside a snow house at Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, December 1, 1900. Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo 85. A number, possibly 81, is etched into emulsion on lower part of plate. 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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