Steel Engraving 'The Open Water From Ape Jefferson'. c1856 from Elisha Kent Kane's Explorations in the Tears 1853, 54, 55 Volume 1
Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856. Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857) an American physician and Arctic explorer who in 1850 led an unsuccessful expedition to northwestern Greenland to search for the British explorer Sir John Franklin, missing since 1845.