Aviator Umberto Nobile with his dog Titiana, Seattle, June 27, 1926
In June 1926, sixteen men crossed the North Pole from Norway to Alaska in the airship 'Norge' as part of a joint Norwegian-American-Italian venture. The group was headed by polar explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, and the dirigible was designed and piloted by Umberto Nobile. O...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:imlsmohai/60 2023-05-15T17:39:42+02:00 Aviator Umberto Nobile with his dog Titiana, Seattle, June 27, 1926 Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer United States--Washington (State)--Seattle Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 600 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/60 unknown Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection 1986.5G.2196 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/60 Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection Explorers--Washington (State)--Seattle Dogs--Washington (State)--Seattle Nobile Umberto 1885-1978 photograph; image ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:53:16Z In June 1926, sixteen men crossed the North Pole from Norway to Alaska in the airship 'Norge' as part of a joint Norwegian-American-Italian venture. The group was headed by polar explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, and the dirigible was designed and piloted by Umberto Nobile. On their way back to Europe, the men stopped in Seattle, where they were greeted by over 5,000 cheering people. This photo of Nobile holding his dog was taken from that day, June 27, 1926. Nobile's second polar adventure in the airship Italia in 1928 ended in tragedy. The airship crashed on the ice floes northeast of Spitzbergen (Svalbard), Norway stranding the crew and resulting in a lengthy multi-national rescue effort in which one pilot crashed and needed rescue and Amundsen died in a plane crash en route to the rescue. The remaining survivors, including Nobile and his dog Titiana, were rescued seven weeks later by a Russian icebreaker. Caption information sources: Umberto Nobile-The North Pole Flights; MOHAI's photo database. 1 glass negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. Other/Unknown Material North Pole Spitzbergen Svalbard Alaska University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Svalbard Norway North Pole Nobile ENVELOPE(-61.433,-61.433,-64.550,-64.550) |
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Explorers--Washington (State)--Seattle Dogs--Washington (State)--Seattle Nobile Umberto 1885-1978 Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer Aviator Umberto Nobile with his dog Titiana, Seattle, June 27, 1926 |
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Explorers--Washington (State)--Seattle Dogs--Washington (State)--Seattle Nobile Umberto 1885-1978 |
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In June 1926, sixteen men crossed the North Pole from Norway to Alaska in the airship 'Norge' as part of a joint Norwegian-American-Italian venture. The group was headed by polar explorers Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, and the dirigible was designed and piloted by Umberto Nobile. On their way back to Europe, the men stopped in Seattle, where they were greeted by over 5,000 cheering people. This photo of Nobile holding his dog was taken from that day, June 27, 1926. Nobile's second polar adventure in the airship Italia in 1928 ended in tragedy. The airship crashed on the ice floes northeast of Spitzbergen (Svalbard), Norway stranding the crew and resulting in a lengthy multi-national rescue effort in which one pilot crashed and needed rescue and Amundsen died in a plane crash en route to the rescue. The remaining survivors, including Nobile and his dog Titiana, were rescued seven weeks later by a Russian icebreaker. Caption information sources: Umberto Nobile-The North Pole Flights; MOHAI's photo database. 1 glass negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
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Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Aviator Umberto Nobile with his dog Titiana, Seattle, June 27, 1926 |
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Aviator Umberto Nobile with his dog Titiana, Seattle, June 27, 1926 |
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Aviator Umberto Nobile with his dog Titiana, Seattle, June 27, 1926 |
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Aviator Umberto Nobile with his dog Titiana, Seattle, June 27, 1926 |
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Aviator Umberto Nobile with his dog Titiana, Seattle, June 27, 1926 |
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aviator umberto nobile with his dog titiana, seattle, june 27, 1926 |
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http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/60 |
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United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
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ENVELOPE(-61.433,-61.433,-64.550,-64.550) |
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Svalbard Norway North Pole Nobile |
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Svalbard Norway North Pole Nobile |
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North Pole Spitzbergen Svalbard Alaska |
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North Pole Spitzbergen Svalbard Alaska |
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Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
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Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection 1986.5G.2196 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/60 |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
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