Possibly from Mitchell's New universal atlas. Inset: Wilkes' discoveries [in Antarctica] Decorative border. Colors indicate nationality of ownership. Hand colored. 29 x 38 cm.
Published in [Philadelphia] by [S. Augustus Mitchell] in...
Shows tracks of voyages by Wilkes, Bellinghausen, Biscoe, Kemp, Cook, Ross, and Weddell. Relief shown by hachures. From Colton's Atlas of the world. No. XIII. Decorative border.
Published in New York by J. H. Colton & Co. in 1856....
Shows routes of Cook, Weddell, Dumont-d'Urville, Wilkes, Js. Ross and Nares. Relief shown by hachures. "Imp. DuFrency." Plate 3. "9-91." Published in Paris by Hechette et Compie, 1890?
Title taken from front. Man inside snow tractor at Nenana, Alaska, with dogs in background at right. From verso: "Wilkes Expedition in 1926." 1926. Photographer: LaVoy. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3" x 4 3/4".