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Title: Portrait of Sir James Clarke Ross, 1800-1892
Date Created and/or Issued: 1943
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
W. Collins
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: Library Exhibits Collection
Rights Information: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
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USC Libraries Special Collections
W. Collins
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Description: Portrait of Sir James Clarke Ross, 1800-1892, an illustration from a water color by an unknown artist, in the Royal Geographical Society. Taken from the plate opposite p. 40 titled "Sir James Clark Ross" in book: British polar explorers.
Sir James Clark Ross was a famous British Arctic and Antarctic explorer. The Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica are named for him.
Type: image
Format: 1 plate (col.), opposite p. 40 in book
portraits
art
Identifier: exbt-m34
exbt-ice-G585-A1M6
http://doi.org/10.25549/exbt-m34
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/exbt-ice-G585-A1M6.jpg
Language: English
Subject: Explorers
Ross, James Clark, Sir, 1800-1862
Time Period: 1850/1892
Place: Great Britain
Source: G585.A1M6 1943 [Call Number]
Relation: Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: The Discovery and Exploration of Antarctica. Doheny Memorial Library, Fall 2002
Evans, Edward. British polar explorers. London: W. Collins, 1943
Library Exhibits Collection
exbt-m33
Provenance: Hancock Collection

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