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 ArticleThe Open Polar Sea
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 ArticleLocation of the resting place of Isaac Israel Hayes, M.D.
Since 2006, three different seminar courses in American studies and Anthropology at Penn State University Abington College have sought to locate the birth and burial spots of four Arctic explorers all...
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 — infatti, for the first half of his life, he...
View ArticleFaces in the Crowd
Tra le firme meno conosciute negli album Bradford è quella di Lucette E. Imbonitore, un artista nel suo pieno diritto, le cui connessioni con altri artisti e scrittori di Londra sono stati notevoli....
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