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English: Photo shows the Polaris prepping for the Charles Francis Hall expedition to the North Pole in 1871, from which she did not return, being crushed by ice in 1872. The original image, later copied by the Detroit Publishing Company, was taken at the Washington Navy Yard, where she was originally modified for the expedition before heading north.
Date 1871, copied between 1890 and 1901
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This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID det.4a13983.
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