British Arctic Expedition.- Fulford (Reginald Baldwin) Photograph Album of the British Arctic expedition under the command of Sir George Nares, some signed T. Mitchell [Thomas Mitchell], 1875-76.

British Arctic Expedition of 1875-76.- Fulford (Reginald Baldwin, Naval Officer and Arctic Explorer, 1851-86) Photograph Album of the British Arctic expedition under the command of Captain Sir George Nares, some signed T. Mitchell [Thomas Mitchell], 56 albumen prints, tissue guards, slightly faded, laid down in an album, bookplate of Fulford on front pastedown, original red blind-stamped diced leather, hessian dust-jacket, browned, a few small tears, g.e., photographs each 147 195mm., 4to album, 1875-76.

***A visual account of the expedition commanded by Nares whose chief aim was to reach the North Pole. The vessels sailed on 29 May 1875 and reached winter quarters on the coast of Grinnell Land (Ellesmere Island), the Discovery in latitude 81°44ʹ N., and the Alert, with Nares, in latitude 82°27ʹ N "the most northerly point hitherto reached in the Canadian Arctic" (Levere, 281). (Oxford DNB). From these bases sledging parties explored the north coast of Ellesmere Island westwards to Cape Columbia and continued to Cape Alfred Ernest charting nearly 400 km of unknown coastline. Lieutenant Lewis Beaumont of the Discovery followed the coast of Greenland northwards to Sherard Osborn Fjord, and a party led by Commander A. H. Markham of the Alert made an attempt on the North Pole, reaching 83°20ʹ N, before turning back due ice drift and rough conditions.

Photographs including: "Alert 'Discovery' & Valorous at Disco [Disko Island, Baffin Bay] July 1875"; "Group of natives Esquimeau-dans taken on board Discovery"; "Group of Native Women taken at Disco [Disko]"; "Franklin Pierce Bay looking East Hart Rawson and Fulford"; "Discovery in W[inte]r Q[uarter]s Dougall & the dogs Tide guage in the distance"; "Lt Beaumonts party ready to start for Greenland"; "Sledging Season the Ship Keepers"; "Sledges rounding Cape Rawson near Alert Wr Qr"; "Upper Deck of Alert bEarly Summer 1876" etc.

Thomas Mitchell was the paymaster on the HMS Discovery during the British Polar Expedition of 1875-76. An amateur photographer, Mitchell was trained at the request of Captain Nares at the Army School of Photography in Chatham particularly for Nares' Arctic Expedition.