3-071-272 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The American Franklin Search Expedition: autumn camp on King William's Land, 1881. Illustration shows the camp of Lieutenant Schwatka's party in 1878. 'It will be remembered that the expedition, which was fitted out by the New York Geographical Society, was engaged from the July of 1878 to the August of 1880, in the undertaking to look for relics or traces of the fate of the British Arctic explorers, the officers and crews of H.M.S. Erebus and H.M.S. Terror, on the shores of King William's Land and of the Adelaide Peninsula...The party consisted of Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka, of the United States Army; Mr. W. H. Gilder, special correspondent of the New York Herald; Mr. H. W. Klutschak, special artist, and Mr. Frank Melms, of Milwaukie [sic], with Mr. J. Eberling, who has served in preceding Arctic expeditions'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.