crockerland

Walter Elmer Ekblaw (1882-1949), midwestern geology professor, taught at the University of Illinois, 1910-1913. Is credited as the founder of Homecoming festivities at the University. Ekblaw was on the same 1913 Arctic expedition as Maurice Tanquary (seen in a recent Flickr Commons upload): Nice article about the expedition, with more photos of Ekblaw and Tanquary: www.uiaa.org/urbana/illinoisalumni/0801b.html

pennylrichardsca: Thanks for the information. It looks (after some rotating and flipping) as though the date on the negative is June 27, 1913. Mr. Ekblaw, as part of the Crocker Land Expedition, left from New York on July 2, 1913. (Dates on the negatives can be mysterious but likely do indicate when the photo was used.)

I started an entry in Wikipedia for him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Elmer_Ekblaw

Wikipedia has this to say about the Crocker Land Expedition: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocker_Land_Expedition, which was led by Donald Macmillan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Baxter_MacMillan

I love how the supplies were run down the dock on rail trucks. There's a delivery horse+buggy for Sozodont, a mouth wash. Wonder how long the members of the expedition were worried about their breath. The links @amphalon provided describe just how treachorous the trip was. They seem to have been a bit fanciful in their choice of supplies. Anyone know why the flag atop the center mast says "DIIN"?

Compare the photo to one taken of the construction of the Battleship New York. The building on the right of both photos is the same. I guess that in this photo, we are looking across at the construction site of the New York? (a year after the New York was completed)

Flag atop the center mast says "Diana," the name of the ship.

Woops, you're right!