Wilkie Collins
Among the more illustrious names found in the Bradford scrapbooks is that of the novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins (1824-1889). Collins, a close friend and protégé of Charles Dickens, was perhaps...
View ArticleBradford, Hayes, and Wasson
A recent discovery by Ethelind Wright at the University of Southern Maine has revealed that William Bradford’s ambition to make use of the lantern-slide versions of the Arctic views made under his...
View ArticleLady Jane Franklin
Among the most notable signatures in William Bradford’s scrapbook is that of Lady Jane Franklin, the second wife of Sir John Franklin, a woman of indominable will and spirit, who through her efforts to...
View ArticleEl mar polar abierto
One of the most persistent chimeras of nineteenth-century polar exploration, the belief in an “Open Polar Sea” was so widely-held that it was often taken as an article of faith. There is some evidence...
View ArticleUbicación del lugar de descanso de Israel Isaac Hayes, M.D.
Desde 2006, tres cursos de seminario en diferentes estudios americanos y Antropología de la Universidad de Penn State Abington Colegio han tratado de localizar los lugares de nacimiento y el entierro...
View ArticleDr. Elisha Kent Kane
Looming large behind all of the polar spectacles of Bradford and Dunmore and Critcherson, as well as the career of Dr. Isaac I. Hayes, there stands the figure of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, by far the most...
View ArticleEdward Augustus Inglefield
Perhaps the most significant of all the signatures in the Bradford scrapbooks is that of Captain (and later Admiral) Edward Augustus Inglefield — not only because Inglefield was the commander of three...
View ArticleFrancis Russell Nixon
Anglican Bishop Francis Russell Nixon is among the more singular signatories in William Bradford’s studio scrapbook. Had he only his brilliant academic career and subsequent rise in the church, he...
View ArticleCharles Francis Hall
Charles Francis Hall may well have been the most passionate — and most peculiar — of all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers. He was not born to the sea — De hecho, for the first half of his life, he...
View ArticleFaces in the Crowd
Entre las firmas menos conocidas en los libros de recuerdos Bradford es el de Lucette E. Pregonero, una artista por derecho propio, cuyas conexiones con otros artistas y escritores de Londres eran...
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