Skin and cloth tents, summer camp, Hudson Bay, Canada

View of tents in the Hudson Bay area of the Canadian Arctic, ca. 1897-1912. Structures are identified as skin tents and also cloth tents brought north by the Americans, comprising "summer camps, where comfort is taken." Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from...

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Main Author: Comer, George (Creator)
Format: Still Image
Language:unknown
Published: Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport 1897
Subjects:
Inuit
Tents
Dwellings
Arctic
Bedford
Canada
Hudson
Hudson Bay
New Bedford
inuit
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5511
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spelling ftconnecticstlib:oai:oai:collections.ctdigitalarchive.org:70002_5511 2023-05-15T14:52:18+02:00 Skin and cloth tents, summer camp, Hudson Bay, Canada Comer, George (Creator) East Haddam (Conn.) 1897 - 1912 image/tiff http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5511 unknown Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport Source Note: Comer Collection 70002:5511 Accession number: 1963.1767.110 local: ms_m169193.tif http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5511 Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Photography Department, Mystic Seaport, Mystic. Inuit Tents Dwellings StillImage photographs 1897 ftconnecticstlib 2019-06-14T11:30:06Z View of tents in the Hudson Bay area of the Canadian Arctic, ca. 1897-1912. Structures are identified as skin tents and also cloth tents brought north by the Americans, comprising "summer camps, where comfort is taken." Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo # 88. Such tents provided shelter for the Inuit during summer. 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. Still Image Arctic Hudson Bay inuit Connecticut Digital Archive Arctic Bedford ENVELOPE(-67.150,-67.150,-66.467,-66.467) Canada Hudson Hudson Bay New Bedford ENVELOPE(-61.250,-61.250,-73.367,-73.367)
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topic Inuit
Tents
Dwellings
spellingShingle Inuit
Tents
Dwellings
Comer, George (Creator)
Skin and cloth tents, summer camp, Hudson Bay, Canada
topic_facet Inuit
Tents
Dwellings
description View of tents in the Hudson Bay area of the Canadian Arctic, ca. 1897-1912. Structures are identified as skin tents and also cloth tents brought north by the Americans, comprising "summer camps, where comfort is taken." Infrastructure Lifestyle Title supplied by cataloger. Information from original envelope identifies this as Photo # 88. Such tents provided shelter for the Inuit during summer. 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.
format Still Image
author Comer, George (Creator)
author_facet Comer, George (Creator)
author_sort Comer, George (Creator)
title Skin and cloth tents, summer camp, Hudson Bay, Canada
title_short Skin and cloth tents, summer camp, Hudson Bay, Canada
title_full Skin and cloth tents, summer camp, Hudson Bay, Canada
title_fullStr Skin and cloth tents, summer camp, Hudson Bay, Canada
title_full_unstemmed Skin and cloth tents, summer camp, Hudson Bay, Canada
title_sort skin and cloth tents, summer camp, hudson bay, canada
publisher Ownership Statement: Mystic Seaport
publishDate 1897
url http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5511
op_coverage East Haddam (Conn.)
long_lat ENVELOPE(-67.150,-67.150,-66.467,-66.467)
ENVELOPE(-61.250,-61.250,-73.367,-73.367)
geographic Arctic
Bedford
Canada
Hudson
Hudson Bay
New Bedford
geographic_facet Arctic
Bedford
Canada
Hudson
Hudson Bay
New Bedford
genre Arctic
Hudson Bay
inuit
genre_facet Arctic
Hudson Bay
inuit
op_relation Source Note: Comer Collection
70002:5511
Accession number: 1963.1767.110
local: ms_m169193.tif
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/70002:5511
op_rights Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Photography Department, Mystic Seaport, Mystic.
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