Explore the historical evolution and visual significance of this theme through the extensive archives of Luminous-Lint. By connecting rare images, scholarly research, and diverse photographic techniques, we provide a comprehensive framework for understanding how these visual narratives have shaped the medium across the 19th and 20th centuries. Dive into our networked database of over 130,000 images to discover the pivotal trends, individual masterpieces, and deep historical connections that define this field.
| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to nineteenth century scientific expeditions |
| 2 | Expeditionary Art: An Appraisal |
| 3 | Surveying |
| Canada |
| 4 | Humphrey Lloyd Hime: Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition (1857-1858) |
| 5 | Charles Horetzky: Surveyor and photographer of British Columbia |
| 6 | Joseph Burr Tyrrell: Expedition to the barren lands (1893) |
| Canada / USA |
| 7 | Northwest Boundary Survey (1857-1862) / British North American Boundary Commission |
| USA |
| 8 | Landscape surveys of the American West |
| 9 | William Henry Jackson: Equipment required for wet-plate photography (1869) |
| 10 | Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel - Clarence King (1867-1869) |
| 11 | Timothy O'Sullivan: The sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev. |
| 12 | John Carbutt: Union Pacific Rail Road, Excursion to the 100th Meridian (October 1866) |
| 13 | U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey - Ferdinand V. Hayden (1867-1869) |
| 14 | Survey west of the 100th Parallel - George Montague Wheeler (1869-1879) |
| 15 | William Henry Jackson: The Scenery of the Yellowstone, 1871 [Series] |
| 16 | Timothy O'Sullivan: Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (1871-1874) |
| 17 | River explorations - John Wesley Powell (1869-1872) |
| 18 | Edward S. Curtis: Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899) |
| Mexico |
| 19 | John L. Stephens: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (1843) |
| 20 | Désiré Charnay: Cités et Ruines Americaines. Atlas (1863) |
| 21 | Dr. Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon: Archaeological research in Mexico (1870s) |
| 22 | Alfred Percival Maudslay: Mexico: Chiapas: Palenque |
| Panama |
| 23 | John Moran: Darien Expedition (1871) |
| South America |
| 24 | HMS Topaze and Easter Island, Chile (1868) |
| 25 | Albert Frisch: The Amazon (1867-1871) |
| 26 | Jean Chaffanjon: The Venezuelan Amazon |
| 27 | George Miller Dyott: Expeditions in Amazonia |
| Asia |
| 28 | Eliphant Brown: Daguerreotypist on Commodore Perry's voyage to the China Seas and Japan (1850s) |
| 29 | Luigi Montabone: Ricordi del viaggio in Persia della missione italiana (1862) |
| 30 | Henri Sauvaire: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain par M. Le Duc de Luynes |
| 31 | Philip Henry Egerton: Journal of a Tour Through Spiti, To The Frontier of Chinese Thibet, With Photographic Illustrations (1864) |
| 32 | Adolf-Nikolay Erazmovich Boiarski: Russian Scientific-Commercial Expedition to China (1874-1875) |
| 33 | Émile Gsell: Cambodia: Angkor |
| 34 | Captain Edward Francis Chapman: Photographs of Yarkand and Kashgar (1873-1874) |
| 35 | Daniel David Veth: Midden-Sumatra Photographie-Album (1877-1879) |
| 36 | Jean Demmeni: Borneo expedition to Central-Borneo led by Dr. A.W. Nieuwenhuis (1896-1897) |
| 37 | Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition to British New Guinea (1903-1904) |
| 38 | John William Lindt: British New Guinea Expedition led by led by Sir Peter Scratchley (1885) |
| 39 | V.S. Adrianov: Mongolian expedition of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (1879-1880) |
| 40 | Yvette Borup Andrews: Across Mongolian plains (1921) |
| 41 | Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews: A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little Known China (1918) |
| Oceania |
| 42 | Bruno L. Hamel: An Album of Photographic Views (1859) |
| 43 | German Transit of Venus Expedition, Terror Cove, Auckland Islands (1874-1875) |
| 44 | John William Lindt: Picturesque New Guinea (1887) |
| 45 | Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition (1891-1892) |
| Middle East |
| 46 | Palestine Exploration Fund |
| 47 | Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem |
| 48 | Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai |
| 49 | American Palestine Exploration Society |
| 50 | Louis de Clercq: Voyage en Orient (1860) |
| 51 | Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East (1862) |
| 52 | Duc de Luynes: Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte a Petra et sur la River Gauche du Jourdain (1868-74) |
| Nubia (South Egypt / Northern Sudan) |
| 53 | The Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan (1905-1907) |
| 54 | Photographing in the interior of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel (1906) |
| 55 | Photographing the Temple of Amun and Amunhotep III at Soleb (1907) |
| Africa |
| 56 | Expeditions within Africa |
| 57 | Charles Guillain: Voyage a la Côte Orientale d'Afrique (1856) |
| 58 | John Kirk: David Livingstone - The Zambezi Expedition (1858-1864) |
| 59 | James Chapman: Chapman Expedition in South Africa (1862-1864) |
| 60 | Alexandrine Tinne (1835-1869) |
| 61 | Royal Geographical Society Expedition: Nyassa |
| 62 | Edouard Foà: Africa |
| 63 | László Almásy: Expeditions in the Sahara (1930s) |
| Europe |
| 64 | Bisson frères: Mt. Blanc (1860s) |
| 65 | The Fox Surveying Expedition (1860-1861) |
| 66 | Josef Székely: Austro-Hungarian expedition to northern Albania, Kosova and Macedonia (1863) |
| 67 | Sten Bergman Expedition to Iceland (1909) |
| 68 | Marie Antoinette Czaplicka: Yenesei River Expedition, Siberia, Russia (1914-15) |
| Arctic |
| 69 | Letter from John Herschel to Daguerre (1 August 1939) |
| 70 | Richard Beard: British Naval Northwest Passage Expedition (1845-1848) |
| 71 | Richard Beard: Sir John Franklin |
| 72 | Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield: Inglefield Expedition (1850s) |
| 73 | Dr. Isaac I. Hayes: [Greenland Expedition] (ca 1859) |
| 74 | William Bradford, John Dunmore and George Critcherson: The Arctic Regions (1873) |
| 75 | Thomas Mitchell: The British Arctic Expedition (1875-1876) |
| 76 | Richard Basso: Graf Wilczek'sche Polar-Expedition (1882-1883) |
| 77 | The Greely Arctic Exploring Expedition (1881-1884) |
| 78 | Budtz Müller & Co.: The schooner FYLLA's Greenland voyage (1884) |
| 79 | Prince Roland Bonaparte's ethnographic expedition to Lapland (1884) |
| 80 | Fridtjof Nansen: First crossing of Greenland (1888) |
| 81 | Robert E. Peary: Greenland Expedition (1893-1895) |
| 82 | Nils Strindberg: S.A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition (1897) |
| 83 | Umberto Nobile expedition to the North Pole with the airship Italia (1928) |
| 84 | Roald Amundsen: Amundsen's South Pole expedition (1910-1912) |
| 85 | Herbert Ponting: British Antarctic Expedition - Scott - Terra Nova (1910-1913) |
| 86 | Frank Hurley: Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1913) |
| 87 | Frank Hurley: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) |
| Pack animals |
| 88 | Pack animals - mules, donkeys, burros and horses |
| 89 | L.A. Huffman: The Rage of Huffman and the Calmness of Nig (1883) |
| Dark tents and dark boxes |
| 90 | Contemporary accounts of nineteenth century dark tents |
| 91 | Dark tents and dark boxes |
| 92 | Carleton E. Watkins (uncertain): #925 Spring Valley Water Works |
| 93 | William Henry Jackson: Photographing in High Places |
| 94 | John Burke: Fixing the Negative |
| National Geographic |
| 95 | National Geographic photographers on assignment |
| Field note books |
| 96 | Smithsonian Field Book Project |
| Around the world |
| 97 | The travels of Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia (1871-1872) |
| Fiction and the reality of travel |
| 98 | Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872? |
| Expeditions and exploration in the twentieth century |
| 99 | Introduction to twentieth century scientific expeditions |
| Space exploration |
| 100 | Space exploration |
