The Great White Silence of the Far North, Headquarters of the Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition, 1894-1897

A typed label on the backing board reads: 'Then there is the feeling of ownership, the right of possession, which the man earns, who lifts a new land or a new sea out of the darkness of the Unknown, and fixes it forever upon the chart -- the feeling that the savage, splendid scene before him is his, because he has earned it by work of brain and body, won it by sheer force of clear head and clean muscle. "The Lure of the North Pole."'