Six Inuit children in deckhouse of whaling schooner ERA, Hudson Bay, Canadian Arctic, March 1904

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
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Comer, George (Capt.)
Canada, Hudson Bay; Canada, Nunavut, Cape Fullerton
2004-03-01
glass
4 x 5 in.

Glass negative by Capt. George Comer, taken at Cape Fullerton, Hudson Bay, in March 1904. Depicts a group of Inuit children posed inside deck house on board the whaling schooner ERA. Comer identified them as In Too [?], Heyward, Tom Palmer, Arthur Gibbon [or Gibbons], Tom Luce, and Francis Santo. Most of these names also refer to masters and officers of American whaling vessels, suggesting that they were the fathers of these children.

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