One of six playbills printed in the Arctic in 1851-52
Predating Shackleton’s famous experiments in polar printing by nearly 60 years, this is one of a group of six playbills printed in the Arctic in 1851-52, during the voyages of the Resolute and Intrepid in search of Sir John Franklin.
Most were printed on coloured paper, but this example, promoting a Theatre Royal, Melville Island, p…