1897-99 Belgica expedition. Album
A red album containing photographs from the Belgica expedition.
Written on the inside cover is a greeting from the expedition captain, Georges Lecointe: “A mon compagnon de voyage le lieutenant Amundsen [To my travelling companion, Lieutenant Amundsen], Bruxelles, le 31 Octobre 1900.”
The photographs show scenes from the journey to Antarctica, portraits of the expedition personnel, and scenes from the overwintering in the ice.
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1872
Roald Amundsen born July 16
1880
Starts at Otto Andersen’s School
1886
Jens Engebreth Amundsen dies
1887 – 1889
Polar interest aroused
1893
Gustava Amundsen (née. Sahlqvist) dies
1893
Mountain ski tour with Urdahl and Holst
1894
Hunting in Arctic waters with the Magdalena
1895
Ship’s Officer’s exam
1896
Hardangervidda with Leon
1897 – 1899
Belgica expedition
1897 – 1899
1897-99 Belgica expedition. Album
1899
Cycling from Christiania to Paris
1900
Studying geomagnetism in Hamburg
1903 – 1906
Gjøa expedition
1907
Polar bears as draft animals
1908
Amundsen buys Uranienborg
1909
The North Pole reached?
1910 – 1912
Fram expedition
1914
Amundsen becomes a pilot
1916 – 1917
The polar ship Maud is being built
1922
Nita and Camilla move in
1923
Uranienborg for sale
1924
Amundsen goes bankrupt
1927
Lecture tour in Japan
1934 – 1935
Uranienborg becomes a museum
1938
Betty’s house burns down
2015
A chest full of photographs is discovered
2020
Roald Amundsen’s home goes digital
1903-06 Gjøa expedition. Photograph album
These photographs from the Gjøa expedition were discovered in a chest in an outbuilding at Uranienborg in 2015.📜 They show the crew on board Gjøa and on a sledge journey, and several of the Inuit Amundsen met during the expedition. We still don’t know the full story behind this album and why these particular prints were made.
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1872
Roald Amundsen born July 16
1880
Starts at Otto Andersen’s School
1886
Jens Engebreth Amundsen dies
1887 – 1889
Polar interest aroused
1893
Gustava Amundsen (née. Sahlqvist) dies
1893
Mountain ski tour with Urdahl and Holst
1894
Hunting in Arctic waters with the Magdalena
1895
Ship’s Officer’s exam
1896
Hardangervidda with Leon
1897 – 1899
Belgica expedition
1899
Cycling from Christiania to Paris
1900
Studying geomagnetism in Hamburg
1903 – 1906
Gjøa expedition
1903 – 1906
1903-06 Gjøa expedition. Photograph album
1907
Polar bears as draft animals
1908
Amundsen buys Uranienborg
1909
The North Pole reached?
1910 – 1912
Fram expedition
1914
Amundsen becomes a pilot
1916 – 1917
The polar ship Maud is being built
1922
Nita and Camilla move in
1923
Uranienborg for sale
1924
Amundsen goes bankrupt
1927
Lecture tour in Japan
1934 – 1935
Uranienborg becomes a museum
1938
Betty’s house burns down
2015
A chest full of photographs is discovered
2020
Roald Amundsen’s home goes digital
1910-12 Fram expedition. Photos of Fram
These photographs were discovered in a chest in an outbuilding at Uranienborg in 2015📜. Several show Fram during and after the 1910-12 expedition to Antarctica, while others show life on board. Also shown is the ceremony before Andreas Beck’s burial at sea in 1914.
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1872
Roald Amundsen born July 16
1880
Starts at Otto Andersen’s School
1886
Jens Engebreth Amundsen dies
1887 – 1889
Polar interest aroused
1893
Gustava Amundsen (née. Sahlqvist) dies
1893
Mountain ski tour with Urdahl and Holst
1894
Hunting in Arctic waters with the Magdalena
1895
Ship’s Officer’s exam
1896
Hardangervidda with Leon
1897 – 1899
Belgica expedition
1899
Cycling from Christiania to Paris
1900
Studying geomagnetism in Hamburg
1903 – 1906
Gjøa expedition
1907
Polar bears as draft animals
1908
Amundsen buys Uranienborg
1909
The North Pole reached?
1910 – 1912
Fram expedition
1910 – 1912
1910-12 Fram expedition. Photos of Fram
1914
Amundsen becomes a pilot
1916 – 1917
The polar ship Maud is being built
1922
Nita and Camilla move in
1923
Uranienborg for sale
1924
Amundsen goes bankrupt
1927
Lecture tour in Japan
1934 – 1935
Uranienborg becomes a museum
1938
Betty’s house burns down
2015
A chest full of photographs is discovered
2020
Roald Amundsen’s home goes digital
1910-12 Fram expedition. Photographs of Equator party, 2 October 1910
These photographs were discovered in a chest at Uranienborg in 2015 and show the festivities on board Fram during the Equator party en route to Antarctica. 📜
On 2 October 1910, the Fram expedition’s “crossing the line” celebrations saw the entire ship decorated with flags and banners. Coffee, wine and brandy were served with biscuits, and a show was arranged on deck. First came music from Knut Sundbeck and Kristian Prestrud with the mandolin, and even the dogs were invited to dance. Next on stage was Hjalmar Fredrik Gjertsen dressed in a white dress like a ballerina, followed by Captain Thorvald Nilsen, dressed in clogs, tie, hat and trousers and telling stories. From the gramophone that hung under the boom of the mainsail, songs such as “Ja, vi elsker” (Norway’s national anthem), “Dollarprinsessen”, “Les millions d’Arlequin”, “Graf von Luxemburg” and “The happy troll” rang out over the ocean.
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1872
Roald Amundsen born July 16
1880
Starts at Otto Andersen’s School
1886
Jens Engebreth Amundsen dies
1887 – 1889
Polar interest aroused
1893
Gustava Amundsen (née. Sahlqvist) dies
1893
Mountain ski tour with Urdahl and Holst
1894
Hunting in Arctic waters with the Magdalena
1895
Ship’s Officer’s exam
1896
Hardangervidda with Leon
1897 – 1899
Belgica expedition
1899
Cycling from Christiania to Paris
1900
Studying geomagnetism in Hamburg
1903 – 1906
Gjøa expedition
1907
Polar bears as draft animals
1908
Amundsen buys Uranienborg
1909
The North Pole reached?
1910 – 1912
Fram expedition
1910 – 1912
1910-12 Fram expedition. Photographs of Equator party, 2 October 1910
1914
Amundsen becomes a pilot
1916 – 1917
The polar ship Maud is being built
1922
Nita and Camilla move in
1923
Uranienborg for sale
1924
Amundsen goes bankrupt
1927
Lecture tour in Japan
1934 – 1935
Uranienborg becomes a museum
1938
Betty’s house burns down
2015
A chest full of photographs is discovered
2020
Roald Amundsen’s home goes digital
1912-14, the South Pole dog Obersten, photographs
Obersten (The Colonel) was one of three Greenland Dogs who came back to Norway after the Fram expedition. Obersten was the only one of these who in addition had been on the sledge journey all the way to the Pole, when he was part of Oscar Wisting‘s team.
After they arrived in Norway, Obersten and the other dogs lived for a time at Amundsen’s home in Svartskog, but during summer 1914 Obersten moved to Wisting’s home in Horten. When Obersten died is not known, but it was probably during 1919-20.
When the Ski Museum at Frognerseteren (today’s Holmenkollen) was to be established, Obersten’s skin was recovered and stuffed. Obersten is now on display at the Ski Museum in front of the tent and equipment from the South Pole expedition.
These photographs of Obersten and several of Amundsen’s other dogs were found in a chest at Uranienborg in 2015.
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Photographs. Herman Gade
These photographs were found in a chest in an outbuilding at Uranienborg in 2015.📜
The photographs show Herman Gade with his wife Alice Garfield King (1871–1938), their daughter Alice (f. 1899) and Roald Amundsen.
The pictures were taken at different times, probably shortly after the Fram expedition.
1914-18, Photos from World War I
In 1917, Amundsen visited the French front and the battlefield. The following year he was in America giving a talk on what he had seen and experienced. These images are probably a package of press photos given to Amundsen on the occasion of his visit to France. The images were discovered in a chest in one of the storage rooms in Amundsen’s home in 2015.
1872
Roald Amundsen born July 16
1880
Starts at Otto Andersen’s School
1886
Jens Engebreth Amundsen dies
1887 – 1889
Polar interest aroused
1893
Gustava Amundsen (née. Sahlqvist) dies
1893
Mountain ski tour with Urdahl and Holst
1894
Hunting in Arctic waters with the Magdalena
1895
Ship’s Officer’s exam
1896
Hardangervidda with Leon
1897 – 1899
Belgica expedition
1899
Cycling from Christiania to Paris
1900
Studying geomagnetism in Hamburg
1903 – 1906
Gjøa expedition
1907
Polar bears as draft animals
1908
Amundsen buys Uranienborg
1909
The North Pole reached?
1910 – 1912
Fram expedition
1914
Amundsen becomes a pilot
1916 – 1917
The polar ship Maud is being built
1917
1914-18, Photos from World War I
1922
Nita and Camilla move in
1923
Uranienborg for sale
1924
Amundsen goes bankrupt
1927
Lecture tour in Japan
1934 – 1935
Uranienborg becomes a museum
1938
Betty’s house burns down
2015
A chest full of photographs is discovered
2020
Roald Amundsen’s home goes digital
Photos from the railway to Bergen (Bergensbanen)
Probably taken during Amundsen’s travel to Bergen summer of 1908.
Myrdal. Photo: RA.f.000399. Follo Museum, MiA
Hallingskeid. Bergensbanen. RA.f.000400.
Along Bergensbanen. RA.f.000401
Myrdal (?) Bergensbanen. RA.f.000402
Myrdal (?) Bergensbanen. RA.f.000403
Finsevann (?) Bergensbanen. RA.f.000404
Finse. Bergensbanen. RA.f.000405
Hallingskeid. Bergensbanen. RA.f.000406
Finsevann, Hardangerjøkulen. Bergensbanen. RA.f.000407
Along Bergensbanen. RA.f.000408
Along Bergensbanen. RA.f.000409
Place unknown. Bergensbanen. RA.f.000410
Finse. Finsevann. Bergensbanen. RA.f.000411
Finse. Finsevann. Bergensbanen. RA.f.000412
Finse. Finsevann. Bergensbanen. RA.f.000413
Finse. Finsevann. Hardangerjøkulen. Bergensbanen. RA.f.000414
Place unknown. Bergensbanen. RA.f.000415
Place unknown. Bergensbanen. RA.f.000416
Place unknown. Bergensbanen. RA.f.000417
Place unknown. Bergensbanen. RA.f.000418
Place unknown. Bergensbanen. RA.f.000419
1872
Roald Amundsen born July 16
1880
Starts at Otto Andersen’s School
1886
Jens Engebreth Amundsen dies
1887 – 1889
Polar interest aroused
1893
Gustava Amundsen (née. Sahlqvist) dies
1893
Mountain ski tour with Urdahl and Holst
1894
Hunting in Arctic waters with the Magdalena
1895
Ship’s Officer’s exam
1896
Hardangervidda with Leon
1897 – 1899
Belgica expedition
1899
Cycling from Christiania to Paris
1900
Studying geomagnetism in Hamburg
1903 – 1906
Gjøa expedition
1907
Polar bears as draft animals
1908
Amundsen buys Uranienborg
1908
1908 Railway to Bergen
1909
The North Pole reached?
1910 – 1912
Fram expedition
1914
Amundsen becomes a pilot
1916 – 1917
The polar ship Maud is being built
1922
Nita and Camilla move in
1923
Uranienborg for sale
1924
Amundsen goes bankrupt
1927
Lecture tour in Japan
1934 – 1935
Uranienborg becomes a museum
1938
Betty’s house burns down
2015
A chest full of photographs is discovered
2020
Roald Amundsen’s home goes digital