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Spitzbergen: The Northern Exploration Co. Ltd, London
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Spitzbergen: The Northern Exploration Co. Ltd, London

Spitzbergen: The Northern Exploration Co. Ltd, London

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Spitzbergen: The Northern Exploration Co. Ltd, London
An oblong 4° photograph album containing 107 gelatin silver prints mounted on the recto and verso of 24 cream card leaves, depicting the establishment and production of a coal mining operation on Svalbard (Spitzbergen) by the Northern Exploration Co. Ltd, London, 1905
the photographs 4¼ x 6½in. (10.7 x 16.4cm.) and similar
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拍品專文

The shortlived coal mining boom on Spitzbergen lasted from 1900-25 with British, Russian, Swedish and Dutch involved in mining settlements along the fjords the western coast. The settlements had a political purpose too, as the Russians, Americans and British all entertained claims over the archipelago -- a large Union Jack flies over the modest hut occupied by the company in a photograph in the present album. With Norway taking control of the island with the Svalbard Treaty in 1925, and with falling coal prices, the rush came to an end.