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Even Death In The Ice didn’t have original dags on display. Two Franklin Expedition daguerreotypes have left SPRI and travelled to Oxford’s Bodleian Library, til May 7th. Additional pics/info on illu:
Portsmouth trying to raise money (a lot) for a Franklin search flag. Interesting to see such a high res image; this might have been hung in the Franklin relics display at the 1891 Royal Naval Exhibition.
It's from HMS Resolute, which always attracts more international interest.
https://www.nmrn.org.uk/news/Kelletts-sledge-flag-urgent-appeal
The missing gravestone of Franklin searcher John Powles Cheyne has been found — in the woods, miles from where it should be. A family and a reporter in Halifax, Nova Scotia have the story.
The 1842 Harry Goodsir portrait: at some point St. Andrews uploaded significantly better resolution. It wipes away the last bit of computer pixels from his face, showing the original photography grain.
[My edit here is darkened only—nothing fancy/freaky.]
https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/dr-harry-goodsir/79183
"The leather folio was excavated bit by bit with a spoon..."
Presumably then, that rectangle beneath the spoon is the potential journal they found.
