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Sunday, August 2, 2009

A second photograph of Harry Goodsir

One of the more unusual categories for early sitters for the Daguerreian camera is monophotic , meaning persons for whom there exists only ...

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Russell Potter: Russell Potter is Professor of English at Rhode Island College. He speciality is the history of polar exploration (Arctic Spectacles, 2007), with a focus on the the lost 1845 Arctic expedition of Sir John Franklin; his 2016 book, Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search,details the long search for evidence of the expedition. In 2022, along with Peter Carney, Regina Koellner, and Mary Williamson, he has edited a volume containing all the known letters to and from Franklin's men: May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition; the publisher is McGill-Queen's University Press.

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