About Images, Photos, Paintings and Drawings

The archive also includes a wide variety of images or iconographic documents including photographs, paintings and drawings illustrating aspects of the Franklin Expedition including the search for the missing party. Like the textual documents visual documents must be approached critically, that is, users of the web site are encourage to consider who generated these images, their intent in generating them, and what the images reveal about the creator of the image as well as the subject matter they were intended to convey.

Sunken ship